To: Tirian
"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."
AYN RAND
41 posted on
05/26/2006 9:06:21 AM PDT by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran; trubluolyguy
Rand is right. But it took her 37 eye-glazingly dull words to say what Burke did, trenchantly, in fewer than half as many:
''The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.''
203 posted on
05/29/2006 1:34:40 PM PDT by
Tenniel
(Whenever a man casts a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct -- T. Jefferson)
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