You can never plan the future by the past.

—Edmund Burke

About Edmund Burke

Portrait of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (; 12 January [NS] 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, and politician who is widely credited as the founder of the cultural and political philosophy of conservatism. Regarded as one of the most influential conservative thinkers and political writers of the 18th century, Burke...

More quotations from Edmund Burke

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

—Edmund Burke

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

—Edmund Burke

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

—Edmund Burke

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.

—Edmund Burke

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

—Edmund Burke

History

5 Feb 2016 Added