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
life motivational history
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
positive war political
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
vanity reputation fame
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
beauty self-esteem mean
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
philosophy simple facts
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
fashion political innovation
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
football art kindness
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
running holiday order
We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.
birthday passion pride
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
future past welcome
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
fear lying history
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
country 4th-of-july knowledge
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
marriage patience appreciate
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
spirit speak longing
The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.