A cardinal tenet of conservatism is that social inertia is – and ought to be – strong. It discourages and, if necessary, defeats the political grandiosity of those who would attempt to engineer the future by rupturing connections with the past.

— George F. Will

Americans would prefer that immigrants do their jobs and then disappear at the end of the day.

— George F. Will

Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

— George F. Will

Behavior was better when cinemas were opulent.

— George F. Will

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, "What you are doing is none of my business" and "What I am doing is none of your business.

— George F. Will

Coarseness occurs in a land where platitude inflames this sense of entitlement to more of almost everything, but less of manners and taste, with their irritating intimations of authority and hierarchy.

— George F. Will

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

— George F. Will

Enough anecdotes make a pattern.

— George F. Will

Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

— George F. Will

From visible habits we make inferences as to the invisible attributes of the soul. Therefore, statecraft is soul craft.

— George F. Will