"There never was a bad man that had ability for good service."
— Edmund Burke

January 1, 1970

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Speech in opening the impeachment of Warren Hastings (18 February 1788), quoted in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume the Tenth (1899), p. 59