Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similarities in their careers. Both led military rebellions against English monarchs--Cromwell against Charles I, Washington against George III. Each took… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose? — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them. — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms,… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
“You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers. — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require. — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our… — Garry Wills Copy Share
To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit. — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
