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
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The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.
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We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not.
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It is clear to us ... that an interim government can only be Fijian as we develop a new constitution, which is designed primarily to make sure the rights of the indigenous peoples of Fiji, who own this country, are protected once and for all.
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If they can constitute a free and just society with this constitution that they're working on right now, I think that that will be something, a real measurement, a real benchmark,
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Now this constitution has come out, and it didn't come out as the national compact that we thought it was going to be. And there's division there, ... And that caused the situation to change a little bit.
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Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a country
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It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution
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The referendum on the constitution and the elections at the end of December are the most important aspects of what we're doing now.
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I think that's entirely possible, senator, ... I mean, as we've looked at this, we've looked for the constitution to be a national compact, and the perception now is that it's not, particularly among the Sunni.
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The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.
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It will at least be a recommendation to the proposed constitution that it is provided with more checks and barriers against the introduction of tyranny, and those of a nature less liable to be surmounted, than any government hitherto instituted among mortals hath possessed.
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[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.
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The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.
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[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it.