Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.

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George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is an American libertarian conservative writer and political commentator. He writes columns for The Washington Post on a regular basis and provides commentary for NewsNation. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America". Will won the...

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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

—George Bernard Shaw

Americans never quit.

—General Douglas Macarthur

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

—Franklin D. Roosevelt

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

—Edith Wharton

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

—Daniel Webster

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