All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph

[handmade34]

is for enough good men to do nothing.


In the House of Commons on 22 March 1775 Burke delivered a speech (published in May 1775) on reconciliation with America. Burke appealed for peace as preferable to civil war and reminded the House of America's growing population, its industry and its wealth. He warned against the notion that the Americans would back down in the face of force, as the Americans were descended largely from Englishmen:

"... always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government… But let it be once understood that your government may be one thing and their privileges another, that these two things may exist without any mutual relation,—the cement is gone, the cohesion is loosened, and everything hastens to decay and dissolution."

later
"…when bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

[walldude]

1. Well I'd rec this but I have learned today that doing nothing

is the greatest thing the Obama Administration could do right now.

Hell it's right here on DU. In dozens of posts. :rofl: :rofl:

[RegieRocker]

2. Hard to type when roflmao

[Rex]

3. Now be fair...

He did utter a couple of words from his D.C. office about this being a state thingy and not a nation thingy...I thought he worked for the states too, but I see I am wrong.