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The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Sententiae (c. 43 BC)
The result justifies the deed. (Exitus acta probat): Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD), Heorides (c. 10 BC)
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.: Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter 48
The ends must justify the means.: Matthew Prior (1664 - 1721), "Hans Carvel" (1701)
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.: Georges Bernanos (1888 - 1948), "Why Freedom?" The Last Essays of Georges Bernanos, 1955
The world must be made safe for democracy.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), April 2, 1917
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.: Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)
Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables

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