"Actually, there is only one first question of……" — George Will
"Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?"
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175 Quotes by George Will
George Will has 175 quotes on this site.
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It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
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We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
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The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
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Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did,…
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We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it…
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The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible…
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Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
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Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
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I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral…
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Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the…
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Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's…
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Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.
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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
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My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and…
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