Garry Wills Quotes

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• Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
• Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other.
• The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers.
• It's not healthy for a society if the people hate their own government.
• Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'
• Not many of us will be leaders; and even those who are leaders must also be followers much of the time. This is the crucial…
• 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…
• There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose?
• Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
• The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from…
• The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally…
• I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.
• I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
• I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am…

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