302 Quotes by George Will

In this snug, over-safe corner of the world… we may realize that our comfortable routine is no eternal necessity of things, but merely a little space of calm in the midst of the tempestuous, untamed and streaming world.

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, "What you are doing is none of my business" and "What I am doing is none of your business.

It is hard to remain iconoclastic when standing waist-deep in the shards of smashed icons.

Nothing is so irretrievably lost to a society as the sense of fear it felt about a grave danger that was subsequently coped with.

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

Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.

The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.

The almost-always-ghastly exclamation point has been lately compared to canned laughter.

Sarah Palin, who with 17 months remaining in her single term as Alaska's governor quit the only serious office she has ever held, is obsessively discussed as a possible candidate in 2012. Why? She is not going to be president and will not be the Republican nominee unless the party wants to lose at least 44 states.