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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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.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.
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The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.
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If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
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Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman.
past liberty libertarian
If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue.
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Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old books.
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Scholars concede but cannot explain the amazing chemistry of Cub fans' loyalty. But their unique steadfastness through thin and thin has something to do with the team's Franciscan simplicity.
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Greed is envy with its sleeves rolled up.
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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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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.