Quote #20

You can never plan the future by the past.

More from Edmund Burke

  1. They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.
  2. Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
  3. Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
  4. Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can wi…
  5. The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
  6. Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.
  7. The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when…
  8. So far as it has gone, it probably is the most pure and defecated publick good which ever has been conferred on mankind.

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