George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
patriotic opposites soldier
It's a great myth that the British public want our soldiers to be sent into harm's way on a bogus prospectus for ignoble reasons. There is nothing patriotic about that. It is the opposite of patriotism.
population british traditional
The hard left is a very small section of the British population and I myself am not hard left. I am a traditional Labour left-winger.
events murder syria
This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded.
faithful excellence desire
To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.
helping-others people care
The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.
coercion natural instruments
Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.
public-opinion opinion force
Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.
tissues world communism
World communism is like [a] malignant parasite which feeds on diseased tissue
time guests members
A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.
eyebrows want best-things
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
mistake principles doctrine
A doctrine is something that pins you down to a given mode of conduct and dozens of situations which you cannot foresee, which is a great mistake in principle. When the word 'containment' was used in my 'X' article, it was used with relation to a certain situation then prevailing, and as a response to it.
seductive childhood promise
I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately my own, scarcely to be shared with others or even made plausible to them. I habitually read special meanings into things, scenes and places qualities of wonder, beauty, promise, or horror for which there was no external evidence visible or plausible to others. My world was peopled with mysteries, seductive hints, vague menaces, "intimations of immortality.
russia understanding mind
Bearing all this in mind, we see that there is no Russian national understanding which would permit the early establishment in Russia of anything resembling the private enterprise system as we know it.
procedures figs democratic
Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.