Great Ends Quotes

You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is tomorrow's life. Great ends cannot be attained by base means. You've proved that in all your social upheavals. The meanness and inhumanity of the means make you mean and inhuman and make the end unattainable.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are: Security to possessors; Facility to acquirers; and, Hope to all.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

Until nations are generous they will never be wise; true policy is generous policy. All bitterness, selfishness, etc., may gain small ends, but lose great ones.

Life is no longer a contest of great minds for great ends, but a pot house squabble.