Did Edmund Burke say “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”?

Did Edmund Burke say “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”?

Not found in the corpus. We did not find this sentence in any of 13,826 works of the corpus, including the texts we hold by Edmund Burke. That does not prove it was never said; it means no written source in our library contains it. Treat the attribution as unconfirmed.

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