You can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKE
EDMUND BURKE
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke
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Smile to the future and it will smile back to you.
Yoko OnoYoko Ono If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
Alan WattsAlan Watts If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
Anne FrankAnne Frank This is not just an election on the issues. This is an election on the future of American democracy.
Bernie SandersBernie Sanders Reading one book a day to your child can change the trajectory of their future.
Morgan FreemanMorgan Freeman If you don’t heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future.
Oprah WinfreyOprah Winfrey I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.
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