There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
- Garry Wills
Church, Line, Part, Converts
I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.
- Garry Wills
My Life, Fact, Against, Priests
I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.
- Garry Wills
Myself, Macho, Very, Hardly
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.
- Garry Wills
Leader, Goal, Shared, Goals
I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.
- Garry Wills
Never, Been, Them, Journalism
Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
- Garry Wills
Goal, Common, Toward, Mobilization
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
- Garry Wills
Only, Crimes, Were, Winners
I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
- Garry Wills
Me, Audience, Subject, Require
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