I didn't have the mental means to justify spend-ing $1,600 on clothes, on sale or not.

And the way it destroys isn't always meaningful (the means do not justify the ends).

He never denied he was a lying pig who would use any means to justify his better end.

"I just don't think the means could ever justify the end," he said.

As Republicans increasingly use any means to justify their partisan ends, that system has never been more critical.

You perhaps will find some means to justify my poor guiltless Justine.

In his heat to win, he had let the means justify the end, and so destroyed the value of that end.

History has shown that to some presidents, any means justified the end.

Even though this principle works, I do not know that the means justify the ends.

The means never justified the ends-but he had been fighting solely in self-defense.