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
I have never been a communicant.
would-be anticipate contingency
To anticipate & prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom & patriotism.
action should risque
We should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn.
men obedience duty
The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will.
honest persons honest-person
Have the strength to be an honest person.
atheist government giving
... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.
giving judging liberty
In disputes, be not so desirous to overcome as to not give liberty to each one to deliver his opinion and submit to the judgment of the major part, especially if they are judges of the dispute.
self wish may
I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly.
religious justice mind
Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in the Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the opposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
men honest praise
The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.
independent united-states influence
My aim has been... to keep the United States... independent of all and under the influence of none.
lying cutting tree
I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree.
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.
christian men heaven
While I reiterate the professions of my dependence upon Heaven... I will observe that... no man who is profligate in his morals... can possibly be a true Christian.