Oh, he surely would have said just the same. He saw the danger our people were in, and he loathed it. There was no heroism in his actions, and if there was purity it was only in his all-consuming need to put a stop to that needless suffering.

...We agreed on very few things, but on that point and perhaps that point alone we were of one mind. But does it matter one's motivation if their actions themselves are heroic? The right thing can be done for the wrong reason, as can the inverse; it doesn't change the results.