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
wild-places needs wilderness
As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.
party men people
However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
happiness mind world
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
veterans-day military war
The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.
fate army hands
The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.
constitution excellent ifs
The Constitution that we have is an excellent one, if we can keep it where it is.
friendship best-friend confidence
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
motivational inspiration 4th-of-july
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
peace money powerful
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
mind president sides
When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.
motivational teacher honesty
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
political liberty alliances
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
practice dangerous borrowing-money
There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money
religious individual-happiness law
Your love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of industry -- and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.