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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 564
AUTHOR: William Penn (1644–1718)
QUOTATION: A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
ATTRIBUTION: WILLIAM PENN, Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections & Maxims, no. 537, p. 102 (1903, reprinted 1976).
SUBJECTS: Evil