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

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it,…

In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence a…

The problem of cat versus bird is as old as time. If we attempt to resolve it by legislation who knows but what we may be called upon to take sides as well in …

In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It …

Diejenige Regierung ist die beste, die sich uberflussing macht.