All George Will Quotes
- The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money. Liberal
- For Conservatives, seeing is believing. For liberals, believing is seeing. Believe
- The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall… Any
- [P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions. Coercion
- The people who flood our living-rooms with a smorgasbord of commercial messages about fetid breath, moist underarms and troubled intestines know this: an appropriate time,… Advertising
- There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules. Aura
- All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority. Advances
- Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope. Any
- The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was… France
- Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty. Been
- Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as inherently private. Appetite
- Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished. Bright
- Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation… Aim
- It is an old baseball joke that big-inning baseball is affirmed in the Bible, in Genesis. "In the big inning, God created... Affirmed
- National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants. Age
- Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime. American
- The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit… Achieve
- Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many… Agents
- Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs. Broadcaster
- Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose… Attribute