George Will Quotes about Liberty

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Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.

Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.

George Will

Talking, Liberty, Progress

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

George Will

Political, Liberty, Libertarian

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 Will

War, Mean, Liberty

George F. Will (1992). “Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home, 1986-1990”

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 Will

Essence, Liberty, Democracy

George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.98, Simon and Schuster