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Junior Chimp
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« on: March 01, 2011, 06:09:31 PM »

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing" and the scores of variations on the theme.

A pseudo-quote that has never actually been attributed to Burke... There's a good essay about it (with a link at the bottom to the author's follow-up essay).
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