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
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Words writ in waters.
dream men wind
Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.
kings law needs
Who to himself is law no law doth need; offends none and is king indeed.
passion heat stills
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
walking-away earth clock
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
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Promise is most given when the least is said.
errors innovation gross
Pure innovation is more gross than error.
kings government calvinism
It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.
public-speaking critics wiser
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
civilization people progress
The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.
luxury lap libertine
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.
scandal hours heavy
If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?
patriotic government people
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
patriotic rights people
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.