220 Quotes by George F. Will

It is a distinctive American genius, this ability to transmute subversion into a marketable commodity.

Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.

Enough anecdotes make a pattern.

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.

Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.

Politics is always driven by competing worries.

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 future by rupturing connections with the past.

Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering animosities.

The utter absence of proof for a proposition is proof of a successful conspiracy to destroy all proof.