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
government hands precedent
Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.
friendship may covenant
The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.
ocean peaceful care
Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties
selling cattle principled
I am principled against selling negroes, as you would do cattle at a market.
miscarriage doubt letters
To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage.
execution easy should
System in all things should be aimed at; for in execution it renders every thing more easy.
morning healthy may
Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.
destiny effort our-actions
There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.
honest persons honest-person
Have the strength to be an honest person.
government evil people
It is among the evils, and perhaps not the smallest, of democratical governments, that the people must feel before they will see. When this happens they are roused to action. Hence it is that those kinds of government are so slow.
independent united-states influence
My aim has been... to keep the United States... independent of all and under the influence of none.
government unions efficacy
To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.
gratitude demand return
The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.
wine mean glasses
My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.