No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting. — George Will Copy Share Image
What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people. — George Will Copy Share Image
Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order. — George Will Copy Share Image
The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government. — George Will Copy Share Image
“Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.” — George will Copy Share Image
Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what. — George Will Copy Share Image
Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more… — George Will Copy Share Image
I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that… — George Will Copy Share Image
Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of… — George Will Copy Share Image
If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty… — George Will Copy Share Image
A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is… — George Will Copy Share Image
Libertarian presidential candidate André Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty." Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?...… — George Will Copy Share Image
Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics… — George Will Copy Share Image
Republicans define freedom as an absence of restraints imposed by government. Democrats define freedom as an absence of necessity, which government exists… — George Will Copy Share Image
Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between… — George Will Copy Share Image
The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting,… — George Will Copy Share Image
With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the… — George Will Copy Share Image
The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of… — George Will Copy Share Image
If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's… — George Will Copy Share Image
Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first… — George Will Copy Share Image
Republicans, supposed defenders of limited government, actually are enablers of an unlimited presidency. Their belief in strict construction of the Constitution evaporates,… — George Will Copy Share Image
I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism… — George Will Copy Share Image
The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the… — George Will Copy Share Image
Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government. — George Will Copy Share Image
The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum… — George Will Copy Share Image
That is the crux of modern conservatism - government taking strong measures to foster the attitudes and aptitudes necessary for increased individual… — George Will Copy Share Image
In September 1942 the U.S. government purchased 58,575 acres of wilderness in eastern Tennessee. Soon there was a town, Oak Ridge, and… — George Will Copy Share Image
For as long as I can remember the slogan has been ... the federal government ought to behave more like families, because… — George Will Copy Share Image
The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for… — George Will Copy Share Image
America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that… — George Will Copy Share Image
The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice… — George Will Copy Share
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience. — George Will Copy Share
As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards. — George Will Copy Share
Hart is still like that little tub of vaguely milklike gunk that comes with airline coffee. It is labeled a "nondairy" product. Fine: we… — George Will Copy Share
The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of… — George Will Copy Share
It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests… — George Will Copy Share
Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving… — George Will Copy Share
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture… — George Will Copy Share
Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their… — George Will Copy Share
“Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.” — George Will Copy Share
I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism I felt… — George Will Copy Share
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty. — George Will Copy Share
Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights. — George Will Copy Share
