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Edmund Burke
b. 1729; d. 1797
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# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
All government — indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter.
# · Not So Good (10 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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