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All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

~George Will

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The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

~George Will

Topics: About America Continuous Government Political Skepticism Strongest Thread Tradition

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I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.

~George Will

Topics: American Back Could Freedom Innocence Jefferson Live Lost Melancholy Mind Minimal Out Sense Something Space State Suppose Thomas Thomas Jefferson Tone Vast Very Which Work Work Out World

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Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.

~George Will

Topics: Adult Become Between Born End Freedom Government Made Making People Popular Race Role Sort Sovereignty Spontaneously Suited Them Trustworthy Upright Years

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Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

~George Will

Topics: Behave Foolishly Freedom Means

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Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.

~George Will

Topics: Argument Consequences Constitutional Dry Dust Momentous Seem

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Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and JFK died in office, so their successors ran as incumbents.

~George Will

Topics: Been Both Democratic Democrats Died Emergence Followed Franklin Franklin Roosevelt John Kennedy Office Only Party Presidents Ran Republican Republican Party Roosevelt Since Two Jfk

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

~George Will

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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.

~George Will

Topics: About American Average Average American Becoming Candidate Car Choice Choosing Consequences Former Immediate Informed More Than Then Time

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Committed partisans are generally the most knowledgeable voters, independents the least. And the more political knowledge people have, the more apt they are to discuss politics with people who agree with, and reinforce, them.

~George Will

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Journalist

Born: May 4th, 1941

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