Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be? – George Will
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. – George Will
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it – short-term pain for long-term gain. – George Will
I suppose theres a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And its 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. – George Will