George Will

The case for democracy is not esthetic.

— George Will

Freedom is the silence of the law.

— George Will

The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.

— George Will

The liberal agenda: Being good to liberals

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The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

— George Will

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

— George Will

Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

— George Will

Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.

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What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people.

— George Will

Only in football is long-term injury the result not of accidents but of the game played properly.

— George Will

Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.

— George Will

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

— George Will

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

— George Will

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

— George Will

[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

— George Will

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes

— George Will

Political ignorance helps explain Americans' perpetual disappointment with politicians generally, and presidents especially, to whom voters unrealistically attribute abilities to control events.

— George Will

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, the United Nations is a disunited collection of regimes, many…

— George Will

“National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.”

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All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.

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The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be…

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“Nothing is so irretrievably lost to a society as the sense of fear it felt about a grave danger that was subsequently…

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The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome…

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Arizona's law makes what is already a federal offense - being in the country illegally - a state offense. Some critics seem…

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Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the…

— George Will

Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable;…

— George Will

Libertarian presidential candidate André Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty." Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?...…

— George Will

Twenty minutes into his presidency, Donald Trump, who is always claiming to have made, or to be about to make, astonishing history,…

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A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is…

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Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional…

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The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of…

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America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring…

— George Will

The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow…

— George Will

It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto…

— George Will

With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the…

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(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping…

— George Will

Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not…

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The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can…

— George Will

[The World Trade Center and the Pentagon] have drawn, like gathered lightning, the anger of the enemies of civilization. Those enemies are…

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The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now…

— George Will