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• Nobody makes a greater mistake then he who does nothing because he could only do a little.
  -- Edmund Burke...
• 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...
• There is no greater mistake to be made than to be consistently correct.
• 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 (1729-1797)...
• The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
• He who never made a mistake never made a discovery. -- Samuel Smile
• 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....
• The only people who do not make mistakes are dead people.
  I saw a man last week who has not made a mistake in four thousand years....