01UndatedEconomics has accurately been called the science of the single instance.George F. Will / quote ↗
02UndatedThe United States is a successful nation that is constantly susceptible to melancholy because things are not perfect.George F. Will / quote ↗
04UndatedThere is nothing quite like a dose of unvarnished history for inoculating people against the tendency to indict the present for failing to measure up to a sentimental notion of the past.George F. Will / quote ↗
05UndatedLacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering animosities.George F. Will / quote ↗
06UndatedAmericans would prefer that immigrants do their jobs and then disappear at the end of the day.George F. Will / quote ↗
07UndatedWho teaches young people to be so exquisitely sensitive to perceived slights, so ready to read affronts into routine events in everyday life? Their teachers no doubt.George F. Will / quote ↗
08UndatedGet evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.George F. Will / quote ↗
09UndatedOur hatred of government is not caused mainly by government's goals, whatever their wisdom, but by government's techniques." Philip HowardGeorge F. Will / quote ↗
10UndatedLaw, rather than harnessing the passions, is increasingly pressed into their service.George F. Will / quote ↗
12UndatedCivilization 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.George F. Will / quote ↗
13UndatedMatthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an acquaintance said: "Poor Matt, he's going to Heaven, no doubt – but he won't like God.George F. Will / quote ↗
16UndatedCoarseness occurs in a land where platitude inflames this sense of entitlement to more of almost everything, but less of manners and taste, with their irritating intimations of authority and hierarchy.George F. Will / quote ↗
17UndatedNational Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.George F. Will / quote ↗
18UndatedIn 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.George F. Will / quote ↗
19UndatedFootball combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.George F. Will / quote ↗
