The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ~Various wordings of this quotation are attributed to Charles F. Aked and Edmund Burke, among others but no author has yet been confirmed as the originatorquoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/17/meretricious (Thanks, Garson O’Toole of quoteinvestigator.com!)
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