You can never plan the future by the past.
Tag: Edmund Burke
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All government — indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter.
A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.
A man who works beyond the surface of things,though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.