Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.
Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
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