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George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is an American conservative political commentator. Will writes regular columns for The Washington Post and provides commentary for NBC News and MSNBC. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America", in a league with Walter Lippmann (1889–1974). His numerous awards include the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1977.

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Even the continents drift.

Continents, Drift

[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

Coercion, Mandates, Taxes, Tissue, Tissues, Top Down

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes

Crime, Crimes, Drug, Offenses, Property, Today

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business. '

Civility, Civilization, Life, Mind Your Own Business, Requires, Willingness

Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom.

Earning, Invested, Necessary, Tangible, Taxation

Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

Government, Know, Responsible, Voters

Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.

Baseball, Gift, Heaven, Mortals, Sports

Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

Calamities, Destiny, Distance, People, Stimulating, Things

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

Character, Impedes, Perfection, Pursuit, Work

Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.

Athens, Baseball, Enjoy, Good

Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their backyards at 3 A. M.

Distance, Front, Men, People, Women

Since 1946, the Cubs have had two problems: They put too few runs on the scoreboard and the other guys put too many. So what is the new management improving? The scoreboard.

Cubs, Guy, Management, Problems, Running, Two

When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things; the debate is raging; and he's losing it.

Debate, Losing, Over You, Politician, Says, Two

National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants.

Age, Dark, Slaughter, Universally, Warfare

The 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.

America, Government, Self, Primary, Everyone, Individuals

Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

Bigs, Fail, Failing, Liberalism, Political, Wrong

The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible.

Average, Candidate, Car, Choice, Choices

Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first two-thirds of this century reflected the new belief that government should also confer capacities on individuals. Liberalism's decline in the final third of this century has reflected doubts about whether government can be good at that, or whether government that is good at that is good for the nation's character.

Believe, Character, Conservatives, Freedom, Preservation, Two

Sports is the toy department of life.

Department, Life, Sports, Toy, Toys

Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.

Laboratory, Liberty, Mean, Nationalism, War

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