“ The United States is a successful nation that is constantly susceptible to melancholy because things are not perfect. George F. Will
“ Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things. George F. Will
“ The columnist gives these words to the longings of an 11-year-old he meets with Tourette's syndrome: "Wisdom is encoded in our common language. We all have, to some extent, a complex, sometimes advers… George F. Will
“ Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present. George F. Will
“ Gifted teachers master the patience required for the unending business of transmitting civilization down the generations, transforming biological facts – children – into social artifacts called citize… George F. Will
“ From visible habits we make inferences as to the invisible attributes of the soul. Therefore, statecraft is soulcraft. George F. Will
“ A cardinal tenet of conservatism is that social inertia is – and ought to be – strong. It discourages and, if necessary, defeats the political grandiosity of those who would attempt to engineer the fu… George F. Will
“ In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God. George F. Will
“ Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like. George F. Will
“ The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem. George F. Will
“ He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation. George F. Will
“ When a workman is unceasingly and exclusively engaged in the fabrication of one thing, he ultimately does his work with singular dexterity; but, at the same time, he loses the general faculty of apply… George F. Will
“ In this age of 'whatever,' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. " James Morris George F. Will
“ Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop. George F. Will
“ People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium. George F. Will
