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• For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end.
  For a man, it is an end in itself. -- Edward Abbey...
• There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
  That is the point at which the negation of Catholicism and the negation of Liberalism meet and keep high festival, and the end learns to justify the means....
• The theory of liberty, when delivered in a political speech by a candidate
  always sounds far better and contains a great deal more promise than the actual practice of liberty is prepared to give unless the listeners are willing to pay higher taxes....
• Murder may be done by legal means, by plausible and profitable war, by calumny, as well as by dose or dagger.
  -- Lord Acton (1834-1902)...
• If you get to the end, who cares about the means?
• Justice and solidarity feel good. In the end. -- A comment on the price of liberty. From AARGH!
• The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
  What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for actio...
• A State which is incompetent to satisfy different races condemns itself
  a State which does not include them is destitute of the chief basis of self-government....
• A Democratic nation, at least when organized to secure the political rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, can be a large and populous nation.
  -- Michael Scully...