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George Will Quotes

- Journalist | May 4, 1941 -

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

American Most Many Admirable

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

Education Politics Purpose Religion

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Words Audience Reveal Politician He

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter.

Work Love History Time Moment World

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

Politicians Some Extent

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

Government Political America Thread

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.

Work Live Freedom Space Mind World

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

Marriage Hope Experience You Know

Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.

Consequences Dust Seem Dry Momentous

Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and JFK died in office, so their successors ran as incumbents.

Party Office Republican Democrats

Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

Government Doing Know Responsible

The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible.

Car Time American Choice More

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