The only thing necessary

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke

The Founders recognized that

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual’s greed for power and the electorates’ desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment. David Mamet