Arrogance Quote by Garry Wills

There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose?

— Garry Wills

I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.

— Garry Wills

Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms,…

— Garry Wills

“You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The…

— Garry Wills

There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their…

— Garry Wills

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers.

— Garry Wills

Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that…

— Garry Wills

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

— Garry Wills

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

— Garry Wills

I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

— Garry Wills

To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit.

— Garry Wills