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
political liberty libertarian
Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
perfection doe libertarian
The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.
real division libertarian
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
perfect liberty libertarian
The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.
liberty politics libertarian
Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman.
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If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
past liberty libertarian
If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue.
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There is a declining number of Americans paying income taxes, while more and more people are dependent for things that fewer and fewer people are paying for.
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Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.
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Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.
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Populism has had as many incarnations as it has had provocations, but its constant ingredient has been resentment, and hence whininess. Populism does not wax in tranquil times; it is a cathartic response to serious problems. But it always wanes because it never seems serious as a solution.
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Political ignorance helps explain Americans' perpetual disappointment with politicians generally, and presidents especially, to whom voters unrealistically attribute abilities to control events.
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Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced.