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Unuttered famous quotations

Posted on May 29th, 2008

Hmm. I went to confirm the source of the famous quotation “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing,” and found at WikiQuote that although it’s commonly ascribed to Edmund Burke, he didn’t actually write it. In fact, as far as we (= Martin Porter 1 2) can tell, no one did.

Well, play it again, Sam!

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4 Responses to “Unuttered famous quotations”

  1. Old Bogus, on May 29th, 2008 at 10:17 pm Said:

    You’re not the first to wonder about this quote.
    http://tartarus.org/~martin/es.....uote2.html

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  3. davidw, on May 31st, 2008 at 8:03 am Said:

    Old Bogus, for once I beat you to it! The link to that article was already in my post. Yes!

    :)

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  5. Mark Federman, on June 1st, 2008 at 6:28 pm Said:

    Totally on a tangent, juxtaposing Burke and Bogey reminds me of what McLuhan apparently said when he began teaching, and couldn’t figure out his students: “Burke is feeble stuff to pit against Bogart!”

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