Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal. — 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
The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate… — George Will Copy Share Image
Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the… — George Will Copy Share Image
The more one works, the better one works and the more one wants to work. — George Will Copy Share Image
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary… — George Will Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone has ever announced running for president that they want to change the Bill of Rights. — George Will Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin, who with 17 months remaining in her single term as Alaska's governor quit the only serious office she has ever… — George Will Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now… — George Will Copy Share Image
On March 8 a poll showed Hart 9 points ahead of Reagan. So perhaps 60 million Americans, 55 million of whom had… — 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As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.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
