“ If we could tax Americans' cognitive dissonance we could balance the budget. The American people want all kinds of incompatible things, they're human beings, and they want high services, low taxes, an… George F. Will
“ Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. George F. Will
“ In times of change and danger, when there is a quicksand of fear under one's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present. John Dos Pas… George F. Will
“ The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. George F. Will
“ In this snug, over-safe corner of the world… we may realize that our comfortable routine is no eternal necessity of things, but merely a little space of calm in the midst of the tempestuous, untamed a… George F. Will
“ National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds. George F. Will
“ Coarseness occurs in a land where platitude inflames this sense of entitlement to more of almost everything, but less of manners and taste, with their irritating intimations of authority and hierarchy… George F. Will
“ Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an acquaintance said: "Poor Matt, he's going to Heaven, no doubt – but he won't like God. George F. Will
“ Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, "What you are doing is none of my business" and "What I am doing is none of your business. George F. Will
“ Law, rather than harnessing the passions, is increasingly pressed into their service. George F. Will
“ Our hatred of government is not caused mainly by government's goals, whatever their wisdom, but by government's techniques." Philip Howard George F. Will
“ Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now. George F. Will
“ Who teaches young people to be so exquisitely sensitive to perceived slights, so ready to read affronts into routine events in everyday life? Their teachers no doubt. George F. Will
“ Americans would prefer that immigrants do their jobs and then disappear at the end of the day. George F. Will
“ Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering animosities. George F. Will
“ There is nothing quite like a dose of unvarnished history for inoculating people against the tendency to indict the present for failing to measure up to a sentimental notion of the past. George F. Will
