George F Will Quotes

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• American politics as you know . . . is very often a matter of capture the flag. The party that loses the flag, as the…
• Politicians employ speech writers as ventriloquists.
• Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the…
• Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.
• If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for…
• Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old books.
• The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or…
• Americans, endowed by their solicitous government with an ever-expanding array of entitlements, now have the whiny mentality that an entitlement culture breeds.
• This is what bipartisanship looks like; constant rubbish from both sides of the aisle.
• Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free…
• Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressions and their victims. By rewriting history,…

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