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
children perfection evening
We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.
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We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.
blessed humble imitation
Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our blessed religion we can never hope to be a happy nation.
giving justice people
It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
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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.
unions politics rewards
There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.
party mean blood
If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.
character greatness great-character
It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom without a blot.
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.
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Influence is not government.
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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.
light influence christianity
The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.
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Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.
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All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office.