You can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKEYour representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
-
-
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
EDMUND BURKE -
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
EDMUND BURKE -
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
EDMUND BURKE -
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
EDMUND BURKE -
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
EDMUND BURKE -
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
EDMUND BURKE -
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
EDMUND BURKE -
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKE -
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
EDMUND BURKE -
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE -
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
EDMUND BURKE -
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
EDMUND BURKE -
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
EDMUND BURKE -
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
EDMUND BURKE -
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKE