George Will Quotes

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• Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals. Baseball
• Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial. Baseball
• It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression. Baseball
• If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read… All
• We have 3,141 counties in this country. That would be 20 per county. The idea that we can't assimilate these 8-year-old criminals with their teddy… Assimilate
• Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal. Americans
• I hear Democrats say, 'The Affordable Care Act is the law,' as though we're supposed to genuflect at that sunburst of insight and move on.… Act
• They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans. Acute
• As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards. Been
• The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what is being done… Advanced
• Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this… Abelard
• Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure,… Appreciation
• Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing… Business
• Libertarian presidential candidate André Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty." Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?... Besides, liberty, although… Andr
• The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of… Both
• It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet. Gourmet
• A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation… Capitalism
• It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness to routine in… Air
• Not since the multiplication of the loaves and fishes near the Sea of Galilee has there been creativity as miraculous as that of the Keystone… Accomplished
• It has made mincemeat of Barack Obama's pose of thoughtfulness. It has demonstrated that he lacks even a rudimentary understanding of the most basic economic… Barack

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