George Will Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

  George Will

  Change, Future, History

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

• If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

  George Will

  Country, Strong, Government

  George F. Will (2010). “Restoration”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

• The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.

  George Will

  Disappointment, History, Expectations

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

• World War II was the last government program that really worked.

  George Will

  Peace, War, Government

• 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 Will

  Believe, Erosion, People

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