George Will Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.

  George Will

  War, 4th Of July, Blessing

  George F. Will (1995). “The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture, and Other News, 1990-1994”, Penguin Group USA

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

  George Will

  Political, Liberty, Libertarian

• 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

• Libertarian presidential candidate André Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty." Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?... Besides, liberty, although very important, is not the only value.

  George Will

  Government, Ideas, Presidential

• 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

• 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”

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