You can never plan the future by the past.

Quote by Edmund Burke

Topics: Future Quotes, Past Quotes, Planning Quotes

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from...

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from...

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to...

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to...

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

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...

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of...

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of...

The march of the human mind is slow.

The march of the human mind is slow.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the...

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the...

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel...

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel...

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a...

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a...

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.