Otto Lilienthal wrote:

Richard Lamb wrote in message ...
ChuckSlusarczyk wrote:

"evil didn't prosper because good men spoke and evil was nuts" anon


I like the original mo betta...

"The only thing necessary
for evil to triumph over good
is for good men to do nothing"

Edmund Blake

Hello,

1. Edmund Burke, not Edmund Blake

2. He probably never said or wrote it. While my research was not as
extensive as this person's,

http://www.tartarus.org/~martin/essays/burkequote.html

I could also not find a single date or publication for the quote.
Chuck's paraphrase is as good as any other if there is no original.

Otto

Well, that's what I get for trying to use those 1960 brain cells.

Close, but no cigar...

Still, it's a catchy turn of phrase.

Richard