The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
George F. Will
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The utter absence of proof for a proposition is proof of a successful conspiracy to destroy all proof.”
“When a workman is unceasingly and exclusively engaged in the fabrication of one thing, he ultimately does his work with singular dexterity; but, at the same time, he loses the general faculty of applying his mind to the direction of the work. His every day becomes more of adroit and less industrious; so that it may be said of him, that, in proportion as the workman improves, the man is degraded. Alexis de Tocqueville”
“Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.”
“In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.”
“Diplomacy without armaments is like music without instruments. – Frederick the Great”
“There is no hatred as corrupting as intellectual hatred.”
“The argument that a particular project will be "self-financing" is usually the first refuge of politicians defending the indefensible.”
“Politics is always driven by competing worries.”
“Americans would prefer that immigrants do their jobs and then disappear at the end of the day.”
“Who teaches young people to be so exquisitely sensitive to perceived slights, so ready to read affronts into routine events in everyday life? Their teachers no doubt.”
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