220 Quotes by George F. Will

National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants.

The English language is not always the President’s friend.

The case for democracy is not esthetic.

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

As Aristotle said, happiness is not a condition that is produced or stands on its own; rather, it is a frame of mind that accompanies an activity. But another frame of mind comes first. It is a steely determination to do well.

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout ‘Bang!’

In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their voters.