Hi, Patrick.

--- Patrick Goodman  wrote:

> You seem like the guy to come to for these things.

You mean I have some use in this universe after all? :-)
 
> Approximately, it goes thus:  "All that is required for evil to
> triumph is for good men to do nothing."

It's a misattribution.  Burke never said that.  The closest thing to
it that I have is:

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they
will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible
struggle.
--Edmund Burke, in a speech in British Parliament, 23 April
1770

I can't really vouch for the authenticity, however.



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