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• Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
  -- Edmund Burke...
• The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all -- doing nothing.
  -- Benjamin Frankli...
• Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them, are for the greater part ignorant of both the character they leave and of the character they assume.
  -- Edmund Burke...
• The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797), in a letter to William Smith...
• The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
• The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
  Edmund Burke (1729-1797)...
• Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink
  whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field...
• The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. -- Theodore Roosevel
• Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else
  and, therefore, they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, the Heloetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear that generates true courage....