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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When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.
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On their own merits modest men are dumb.
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Merit rarely goes unrewarded.
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I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.
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They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.
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Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?
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The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
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The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.
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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
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Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.
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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.