Garry Wills Quotes

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects - themselves.

It's not healthy for a society if the people hate their own government.

Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other.

Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers.

To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit.

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.

If a nation wishes, it can have both free elections and slavery.

As a framer and defender of the Constitution [Madison] had no peer.

The whole point of free expression is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them to it.

There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose?

Groves, with his eye for sizing up people who could get things done, saw the deep ambition Oppenheimer covered with his surface charm.

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects -themselves.