George F. Will

“Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.”

“Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.”

“There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.”

“In times of change and danger, when there is a quicksand of fear under one's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present. John Dos Passos”

“Economics has accurately been called the science of the single instance.”

“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”

“Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.”