[The World Trade Center and the Pentagon] have drawn, like gathered lightning, the anger of the enemies of civilization. Those enemies are always out there.... Americans are slow to anger but mighty when angry, and their proper anger now should be alloyed with pride. They are targets because of their virtues-principally democracy, and loyalty to those nations which, like Israel, are embattled salients of our virtues in a still-dangerous world.
George WillMost presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.
George WillThe great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children
George WillRemember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?
George WillThe primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of individuals' lives. This is done in the name of equality. People are to be conscripted into one large cohort, everyone equal (although not equal in status or power to the governing class) in their status as wards of a self-aggrandizing government.
George Will