“A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.”

“Don't let your actions betray your intentions.”

“For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed.”

“The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.”

“They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.”

“Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.”

“Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.”

“The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.”

“In fact we say that an intention is good, that is, right in itself, but that an action does not bear any good in itself but proceeds from a good intention.”
Bonam quippe intentionem, hoc est, rectam in se dicimus, operationem vero non quod boni aliquid in se suscipiat, sed quod ex bona intentione procedat. Unde et ab eodem homine cum in diversis temporibus idem fiat, pro diversitate tamen intentione eius operatio modo bono modo mala dicitur.

“The sin is not in the persuasion itself, but in the intention of that individual. If the intention is pure, then your means will also be justified.”