220 Quotes by George F. Will

Taking offense has become America’s national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass through life without encountering ideas or practices that annoy them.

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

As has been said, standards are always out of date – that is why we call them standards.

Correct thinkers think that ‘baseball trivia’ is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

Liberalism is wrong because it doesn’t work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

Still, it is not perverse to wonder whether the spectacle of America, currently learning a lesson – one that conservatives should not have to learn on the job – about the limits of power to subdue an unruly world, has emboldened many enemies.

The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

World War II was the last government program that really worked.