Editing Edmund Burke (section)

==="When good men do nothing"===
The well-known [[Maxim (philosophy)|maxim]] that "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" is widely misattributed to Burke.<ref>{{cite book |first=David |last=Bromwich |title=The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8wWMAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA175 |year=2014 |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |pages=175–176 |isbn=978-0674729704 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=O'Toole |first=Garson |title=The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing |url=http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/04/good-men-do/ |website=Quote Investigator |date=4 December 2010 |access-date=25 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Library of Congress |author-link=Library of Congress |url=http://archive.org/details/respectfullyquot0000unse_g4b3 |title=Respectfully Quoted: a Dictionary of Quotations |publisher=Dover Publications, Inc |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-486-47288-1 |publication-place=Mineola, N.Y. |page=109 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> It is known that, in 1770, Burke wrote the following passage in "[[Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents]]":
{{blockquote|[W]hen bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BrGAIvlkf-sC&pg=PR13 |year=1990 |title=Edmund Burke: appraisals and applications |isbn=978-0-88738-328-1 |first=Daniel |last=Ritchie |publisher=Transaction Publishers |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/thoughtsoncause00burkgoog |page=[https://archive.org/details/thoughtsoncause00burkgoog/page/n120 106] |title=Thoughts on the cause of the present discontents |publisher=J. Dodsley in the Pall-Mall |year=1770 |first=Edmund |last=Burke}}</ref>}}

In 1867, [[John Stuart Mill]] made a similar statement in an inaugural address delivered at the [[University of St Andrews]]:
{{blockquote|Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=DFNAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA36 ''Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St. Andrews, Feb. 1st 1867'' (1867)], p. 36</ref>}}