"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
"It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them."
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Source: Edmund Burke (1834). “The Beauties of Burke, Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.126
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