George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism And America's Fabric Quotes
Economics has accurately been called the science of the single instance.
Television news is akin to audible wallpaper.
Behavior was better when cinemas were opulent.
Washington DC is happiest when in indignation overdrive.
Law, rather than harnessing the passions, is increasingly pressed into their service.
Our hatred of government is not caused mainly by government's goals, whatever their wisdom, but by government's techniques." Philip Howard
Who teaches young people to be so exquisitely sensitive to perceived slights, so ready to read affronts into routine events in everyday life? Their teachers no doubt.
Americans would prefer that immigrants do their jobs and then disappear at the end of the day.
Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering animosities.
There is nothing quite like a dose of unvarnished history for inoculating people against the tendency to indict the present for failing to measure up to a sentimental notion of the past.
There is no hatred as corrupting as intellectual hatred.
The United States is a successful nation that is constantly susceptible to melancholy because things are not perfect.
Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.
In war the moral is to the material as three to one. Napoleon
From visible habits we make inferences as to the invisible attributes of the soul. Therefore, statecraft is soulcraft.
Politics is always driven by competing worries.
Enough anecdotes make a pattern.
In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.
Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.
He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.
In this age of 'whatever, ' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. " James Morris
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.
People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.
There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.