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
selling cattle principled
I am principled against selling negroes, as you would do cattle at a market.
fables jupiter done
Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman.
vices impossible human-nature
Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?
failure decision parent
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
surfing looks easy
It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.
hardest things-to-do you-choose
Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.
coercion natural instruments
Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.
procedures figs democratic
Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
motivational feet never-quit
You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
farewell believe evil
Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL.
fairytale may allegory
A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.
fairytale should
Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.
background-noise waiting make-you-happy
Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.
agreement sight people
In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.