Politics is not the science of setting up a permanently impregnable society, it is the art of knowing where to go next in the exploration of an already existing traditional kind of society.
(Michael Oakeshott, "The Political Economy of Freedom," in Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays, new and expanded ed. [Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1991], 384-406, at 406 [essay first published in 1949])
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 