Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled… — George Will Copy Share Image
“Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.” — George Will Copy Share Image
The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be… — George Will Copy Share Image
I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because… — George Will Copy Share Image
A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic… — George Will Copy Share Image
The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome… — George Will Copy Share Image
Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What… — George Will Copy Share Image
On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful… — George Will Copy Share Image
Society flourishes when and only when its molecular unit, the family, flourishes. We know that lasting improvement comes only in the small… — George Will Copy Share Image
A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life. — George Will Copy Share Image
The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to… — 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 Image
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience. — George Will Copy Share Image
As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards. — George Will Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.” — George Will Copy Share Image
