220 Quotes by George F. Will

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

There is no hatred as corrupting as intellectual hatred.

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.

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 Passos

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.

Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists.

In war the moral is to the material as three to one. Napoleon

From visible habits we make inferences as to the invisible attributes of the soul. Therefore, statecraft is soulcraft.

The United States is a successful nation that is constantly susceptible to melancholy because things are not perfect.