Edmund Burke

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

- Edmund Burke

"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."

- Edmund Burke

"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."

- Edmund Burke

"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. … 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. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."

- Edmund Burke

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

- Edmund Burke

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

- Edmund Burke

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good man do nothing."

- Edmund Burke

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

- Edmund Burke

""Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.""

- Edmund Burke

"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could do only a little."

- Edmund Burke

"Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist."

- Edmund Burke

"What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man."

- Edmund Burke

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

- Edmund Burke

"You can never plan the future by the past."

- Edmund Burke

"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."

- Edmund Burke

"In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind."

- Edmund Burke

"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."

- Edmund Burke

"Never, no, never did nature say one thing and wisdom another."

- Edmund Burke

"Never did nature say one thing and wisdom another."

- Edmund Burke

"Our patience will achieve more than our force."

- Edmund Burke

"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."

- Edmund Burke

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."

- Edmund Burke

"Good order is the foundation of all things."

- Edmund Burke

"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."

- Edmund Burke