All George Will Quotes
Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
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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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Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
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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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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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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
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Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.
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World War II was the last government program that really worked.
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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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Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
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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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Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
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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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Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.
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