George F. Will Quotes

A cardinal tenet of conservatism is that social inertia is – and ought to be – strong. It discourages and, if necessary, defeats the political grandiosity of those who would attempt to engineer the future by rupturing connections with the past.

Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.

Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.

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.

Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists.

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.

In times of change and danger, when there is a quicksand of fear under one's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present. John Dos Passos

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

Washington DC is happiest when in indignation overdrive.