Quotes from George Will

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.

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.

Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National.

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.

Football combines the two worst features of American life: violence and committee meetings.

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.

Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others -- this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.

The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron.

There are times when you will fear your own shadow during night; never let your trust ruin you into the dark- shibin varghese

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes

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

Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

There is an elegant memorial in Washington to Jefferson, but none to Hamilton. However, 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.

In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

The almost-always-ghastly exclamation point has been lately compared to canned laughter.

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, "What you are doing is none of my business" and "What I am doing is none of your business.

Because of demagogues, rhetoric has a tainted reputation in our time. However, rhetoric is central to democratic governance. It can fuse passion and persuasion, moving free people to freely choose what is noble.