"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
"What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence."
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Source: Edmund Burke (1912). “Reflections on the French Revolution”, p.192, CUP Archive
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