A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible lifestyles turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
– George F. Will
All God's chillun got shoes or can get them in Mrs Marcos's closet, which is large enough to house Mr and Mrs Duvalier, itinerant nonlaborers.
– George F. Will
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
– George F. Will
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
– George F. Will
Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
– George F. Will
Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
– George F. Will
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
– George F. Will
Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.
– George F. Will
If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.
– George F. Will
In the lexicon of the political class, the word sacrifice means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
– George F. Will
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
– George F. Will
Pessimism is as American as apple pie-frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
– George F. Will
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
– George F. Will
Scholars concede but cannot explain the amazing chemistry of Cub fans' loyalty. But their unique steadfastness through thin and thin has something to do with the team's Franciscan simplicity.
– George F. Will
Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout Bang!
– George F. Will
Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions.
– George F. Will
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
– George F. Will
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
– George F. Will
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
– George F. Will
The reformers' preferred metaphor is leveling the playing field. They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.
– George F. Will
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.
– George F. Will
There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
– George F. Will
Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.
– George F. Will
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
– George F. Will
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.
– George F. Will
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
– George F. Will
You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
– George F. Will
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
– George F. Will
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
– George F. Will
Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.