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 proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.
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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder.
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It is the peculiar boast of our country, that her happiness is alone dependent on the collective wisdom and virtue of her citizens, and rests not on the exertions of any individual
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Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
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Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.
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I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an Honest Man.
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Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
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[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.
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Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.
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A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.
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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
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There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.