"World War II was the last government program that really worked." ― George Will Topic(s): Government More From George Will "Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience." "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." "A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible “lifestyles” turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind." More In Government "Maybe it’s my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard."― John Bolton "Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent."― Aung San Suu Kyi "That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part."― Thomas Jefferson