You can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKEYou can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKEHe that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
EDMUND BURKEPeople will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKEMen love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
EDMUND BURKEBy gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
EDMUND BURKEIt is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
EDMUND BURKEBut the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
EDMUND BURKENever despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
EDMUND BURKEThose who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
EDMUND BURKEKings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
EDMUND BURKEExample is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKEThose who attempt to level never equalize.
EDMUND BURKEBy hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
EDMUND BURKEEvil prevails when good men fail to act.
EDMUND BURKEHistory consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
EDMUND BURKEThe hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
EDMUND BURKE