All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.692 In 1797, in his Letters on a Regicide Peace, Edmund Burke wrote: The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.693 Edmund Burke resigned himself, stating: First, according to the ancient, good, and laudable custom, of which my heart and understanding recognize the propriety,