George Will
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
-George Will
education
Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
-George Will
experience
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.
-George Will
food
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
-George Will
freedom
Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.
-George Will
freedom
Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.
-George Will
freedom
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
-George Will
future
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
-George Will
government
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.
-George Will
government
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
-George Will
history
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
-George Will
history
Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
-George Will
hope
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
-George Will
leadership
Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
-George Will
marriage
There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
-George Will
poetry
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
-George Will
politics
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
-George Will
politics
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
-George Will
politics
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
-George Will
religion
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.
-George Will
society
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
-George Will
war
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