George Will

A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the…

— George Will

Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can…

— George Will

Children who open their lunchboxes and find mothers' handwritten notes telling them how amazingly bright they are tend to falter when they…

— George Will

Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.

— George Will

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

— George Will

Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue.…

— George Will

Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

— George Will

The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.

— George Will

The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again…

— George Will

If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than…

— George Will

When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th…

— George Will

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

— George Will

Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to…

— George Will

Since 1946, the Cubs have had two problems: They put too few runs on the scoreboard and the other guys put too…

— George Will

Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. For Americans, more than…

— George Will

On March 8 a poll showed Hart 9 points ahead of Reagan. So perhaps 60 million Americans, 55 million of whom had…

— George Will

Major League Baseball's labor negotiations involve two paradoxes. The players' union's primary objective is to protect the revenues of a very few…

— George Will

Not since the multiplication of the loaves and fishes near the Sea of Galilee has there been creativity as miraculous as that…

— George Will

Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time.…

— George Will

Recently the country has seen too much of our legislators, seeing them as a gaggle of check-kiting, judge-smearing deadbeats who don't pay…

— George Will

An alloy of innocence and arrogance, young (Ted) Williams came to Boston when it had four morning and four evening local newspapers…

— George Will

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

— George Will

Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump…

— George Will

Still, it is not perverse to wonder whether the spectacle of America, currently learning a lesson - one that conservatives should not…

— George Will

The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to…

— George Will