Lesser evilism has now become the default position to justify everything from drone strikes, domestic spying, targeted assassinations, torture and proxy wars to full-scale military intervention.

Reckoning from 1802 till November 15, 1837, there were thirteen Houses of Commons

By virtue, thou enforcest laughter ; thy silly thought, my spleen

I say it is south, for the country is more deserted there." And I say east, said my patient. I am for west, remarked the plain-clothes man. […] And I am for north, said I […] Come, cried the Inspector, laughing, it's a very pretty diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us.