What do conservatives seek to conserve? “We seek to conserve the American Founding.” George WillNational Review
If progressives studied his latest brilliant tome, we’d have fewer progressives.
"George Will saved me from two unfortunate habits: overwriting and the Democratic party
"I model that remark after my favorite of Will’s many witticisms: “Football combines the two worst things about America: It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.” Will is rightly praised for his erudition. The Conservative Sensibility, the summa he has just published, is a tour de force. He is the dean of conservatism. But I don’t want to praise him for that, or not only for that.
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"Will’s writing style is more like Cary Grant’s suits: all dazzling simplicity. He is sober yet delightful, restrained yet vivid. In a word he is smart. It would be as shocking to come across a superfluous phrase or a turgid passage in Will as it would be to spot Grant looking like Bluto Blutarsky. . . .
"Some Will gems from the past:
“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.”
“Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one’s friends.”
“Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.”
“A politician’s words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.”
“The future has a way of arriving unannounced.”
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