Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy – judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes – because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.

— George F. Will

George F. Will Quotes

A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.

— George F. Will

The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money – the importance of government in allocating wealth and opportunity.

— George F. Will

What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people.

— George F. Will

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.’

— George F. Will

The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things are impermissible, no matter how large and fervent a majority might want them.

— George F. Will

Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.

— George F. Will

The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government’s size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.

— George F. Will

For Conservatives, seeing is believing. For liberals, believing is seeing.

— George F. Will

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people’s money.

— George F. Will

So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democratic chorus complaining that the Constitution should not be the controlling legal authority, and Clinton’s understudy dispatching lawyers to litigate this: It depends on what the meaning of ‘vote’ is.

— George F. Will

Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.

— George F. Will

The people who flood our living-rooms with a smorgasbord of commercial messages about fetid breath, moist underarms and troubled intestines know this: an appropriate time, place and manner to sell a product is any that sells the product.

— George F. Will

There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.

— George F. Will

All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child’s program of subverting authority.

— George F. Will

National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants.

— George F. Will

Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind’s noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage.

— George F. Will

Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.

— George F. Will

Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as inherently private.

— George F. Will

Nationalism is blamed for this century’s wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.

— George F. Will

Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.

— George F. Will
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