302 Quotes by George Will

The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted.

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge

Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.

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

Patrick Buchanan wants to build a better yesterday

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

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

When America uses power, it makes people angry, but it gets their attention.

The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.