Garry Wills

There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose?

— Garry Wills

I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.

— Garry Wills

Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles,…

— Garry Wills

“You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be…

— Garry Wills

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…

— Garry Wills

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers.

— Garry Wills

Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with…

— Garry Wills

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

— Garry Wills

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

— Garry Wills

Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The…

— Garry Wills

I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

— Garry Wills

To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit.

— Garry Wills

Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite…

— Garry Wills

The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of…

— Garry Wills

I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.

— Garry Wills

Stevenson had noble ideas--as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to…

— Garry Wills

“God initiates the salvation of man to express the Father's love, not a punitive deflecting of the Father's anger.”

— Garry Wills

As a framer and defender of the Constitution [Madison] had no peer.

— Garry Wills

Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'

— Garry Wills

“Inefficiency is to be our safeguard against despotism.”

— Garry Wills

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

— Garry Wills

Not many of us will be leaders; and even those who are leaders must also be followers much of the time. This…

— Garry Wills

“The advantage of a permanent emergency for the executive is that even trivial things can routinely be accomplished by the crisis presidency.…

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“...that the Bomb altered our subsequent history down to its deepest constitutional roots. It redefined the presidency, as in all respects America's…

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Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other.

— Garry Wills