You can never plan the future by the past.

Quote by Edmund Burke

Topics: Future Quotes, Past Quotes, Planning Quotes

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands...

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands...

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason,...

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason,...

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from...

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from...

Good order is the foundation of all things.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add...

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add...

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in...

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in...

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument...

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument...

To innovate is not to reform.

To innovate is not to reform.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is...

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is...

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents,...

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents,...

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is...

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is...

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one,...

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one,...

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all...

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all...

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Just because someone looks good doesnâ€™t mean that they should be respected and trusted.

Just because someone looks good doesnâ€™t mean that they should be respected and trusted.