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Welcome to Call to Decision
Subject: American Minute - Jan. 12 - "The only
thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"
-Edmund Burke
American Minute with Bill Federer
January 12
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men
to do
nothing."
This famous quote was from British statesman Edmund Burke, who was
born JANUARY 12, 1729.
Considered the most influential orator in the House of Commons,
Burke
stands out in history, for, as a member of the British Parliament,
he
defended the rights of the American colonies and strongly opposed
the
slave trade.
In "A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly,"
1791, Edmund
Burke wrote:
"What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the
greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and
madness,
without restraint.
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their
disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in
proportion as they are disposed to listen to the counsels of the
wise
and good in preference to the flattery of knaves."
Edmund Burke continued:
"Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will
and
appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within,
the
more there must be without.
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of
intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their
fetters."
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