Quote: Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes [George F. Will]
Quote: We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual. [George F. Will]
Quote: Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be? [George F. Will]
Quote: I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life. [George F. Will]
Quote: Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. [George F. Will]
Quote: Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. [George F. Will]
Quote: Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs. [George F. Will]
Quote: It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet. [George F. Will]
Quote: It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger. [George F. Will]
Quote: All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point. [George F. Will]
Quote: The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. [George F. Will]
Quote: Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese. [George F. Will]
Quote: The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. [George F. Will]
Quote: Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. [George F. Will]
Quote: If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone. [George F. Will]
Quote: Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called self-interestedness. This was not a [George F. Will]