#fr

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

— George Will

#behave #foolishly #freedom #freedom means #means

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

— George Will

#congress #elected #friends #looting #raid

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

#between #born #end #freedom #government

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

#back #could #freedom #i #innocence

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese. ↗

— George Will

#apple #apple pie #cheese #frozen #pessimism

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ↗

— Frances E. Willard

#friction #i #into #life #momentum

When I first met Kate I knew there was something very special about her. I knew there was possibly something that I wanted to explore there. We ended up being friends for a while and that just sort of was a good foundation. Because I do generally believe now that being friends with one another is a massive advantage. And It just went from there. ↗

— Prince William

#advantage #another #because #being #believe

I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. I would come home from friends's houses with a list of demands. 'OK, We have all the wrong cereals. You guys are asleep on the job.' ↗

— Allison Williams

#asleep #come #demands #friends #guys

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#action #animate #any #basic #basic human rights

For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#country #create #democracy #democratic #embodies