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.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.