“Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. For Americans, more than most people, history has been that…. This sense of openness, of possibility and autonomy, has been a national asset as precious as the topsoil of the Middle West. But like topsoil, it is subject to erosion; it requires tending. And it is not bad for Americans to come to terms with the fact that for them too, history is a story of inertia and the unforeseen.”
George F. Will
Submitted by Quonation |Category: History
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“Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes”
George F. Will
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Crime
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“We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.”
George F. Will
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Children
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“Voters don’t decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.”
George F. Will
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Voting
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“If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.”
George F. Will
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Royalty
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“Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.”
George F. Will
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Pessimism
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“The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.”
George F. Will
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Perfection
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“It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.”
George F. Will
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“As advertising blather becomes the nation’s normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.”
George F. Will
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Language
