George Will Quotes - Famous Quotes by George Will
Born: 1941-05-04
Died: 0000-00-00
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A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
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Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
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Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
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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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Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
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Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
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Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.
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Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.
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Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.
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Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
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If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.
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In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)
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In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
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It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
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Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
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Pessimism is as American as apple pie-frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
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Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
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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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Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
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The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.
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The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
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The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron.
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The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
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The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.
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This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.
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Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
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We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.
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Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.
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World War II was the last government program that really worked.
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