George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
patriotic soul patriotism
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
may pilots philosopher
At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may find themselves in the same boat.
character personality sagacity
Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.
cities mind renaissance
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
blood history arrogant
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
mean successful two-sides
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.
tyrants care instruments
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
long soul world
A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
heart thinking light
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
nature men answers
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
saints-and-sinners saint easier
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
relative-value may common
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
music useless musician
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
sacrifice making-sacrifices sacrifice-for-others
Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.