220 Quotes by George F. Will

Even the continents drift.

We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.

The strongest continuous thread in America’s political tradition is skepticism about government.

The more one works, the better one works and the more one wants to work.

Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.

If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration – and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration – is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.