"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
"To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue."
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Source: Attributed in Captain William Kidd: And Others of the Pirates Or Buccaneers who Ravaged the Seas, the Islands, and the Continents of America Two Hundred Years Ago by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, (p. 179), 1876.
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