Quotes by George Will

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible ‘lifestyles’ turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Voters don’t decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it – short-term pain for long-term gain.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

If you seek Hamilton’s monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton’s country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.