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Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934) is an American author, journalist, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and religion, especially the history of the Catholic Church. He won a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1993.

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

Government, Hate, Healthy, People

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

Bear, Doe, Military, Rabbit, Rabbits, Term

Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before large television audiences. That is the real goal of the thing. But do not, I urge you, pray all alone in your home where no one can see. That does not get you ratings.

Football, Goal, Prayer, Real, Television, Urge

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

Followers, Goal, Leader, Leadership, Motivation, Shared

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

Crimes, Decide, Military, Peace, War

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

Election, Free, Nation, Slavery, Wish

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

Constitution, Defender, Framer, Framers, Peers

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.

Equally, Goal, Goals, Leadership, Necessary, Support

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

Children, Exhaust, Make, Politician, Politicians, Self

Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that I was the only 'religious nut' - his term for a believer - in his stable of regular reviewers.

Book, Christian, Editor, Nut, Religious, Reviewers

Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads - they are not there accidentally. Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930's Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

Crimes, Girl, Horse, Lying, Parks, Spies

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.

Artist, Brain, Creating, Loneliness, Primal, Worlds

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

Common, Goal, Leadership, Toward

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