{"author":"George F. Will","author_id":"George+F.+Will","total_quotes":43,"quotes":[{"text":"From visible habits we make inferences as to the invisible attributes of the soul. Therefore, statecraft is soulcraft.","author":"George F. Will","tags":["character","culture"],"id":12541,"author_id":"George+F.+Will"},{"text":"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.","author":"George F. Will","tags":["continuity","culture","moderation"],"id":14475,"author_id":"George+F.+Will"},{"text":"In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.","author":"George F. Will","tags":["church-and-state","culture"],"id":15619,"author_id":"George+F.+Will"},{"text":"If we could tax Americans' cognitive dissonance we could balance the budget. The American people want all kinds of incompatible things, they're human beings, and they want high services, low taxes, and an omnipresent, omniprominent welfare state.","author":"George F. Will","tags":["expectations","government"],"id":19482,"author_id":"George+F.+Will"},{"text":"In this snug, over-safe corner of the world… we may realize that our comfortable routine is no eternal necessity of things, but merely a little space of calm in the midst of the tempestuous, untamed and streaming world.","author":"George F. Will","tags":["complacency","security"],"id":30175,"author_id":"George+F.+Will"},{"text":"Politics is always driven by competing worries.","author":"George F. Will","tags":["anxiety","civil-fabric","compromise","culture"],"id":46256,"author_id":"George+F.+Will"},{"text":"Our hatred of government is not caused mainly by government's goals, whatever their wisdom, but by government's techniques.' Philip Howard.","author":"George F. Will","tags":["civil-fabric","community","influence","persuasion"],"id":61612,"author_id":"George+F.+Will"},{"text":"People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.","author":"George F. Will","tags":["focus","leadership","strategy","vagueness"],"id":71203,"author_id":"George+F.+Will"},{"text":"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.","author":"George F. Will","tags":["humor"],"id":78821,"author_id":"George+F.+Will"},{"text":"There is nothing quite like a dose of unvarnished history for inoculating people against the tendency to indict the present for failing to measure up to a sentimental notion of the past.","author":"George F. Will","tags":["bias","nostalgia","perspective"],"id":101605,"author_id":"George+F.+Will"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":43,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}