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It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
— Roy Hattersley
No human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.
— John Ruskin
Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
— Pope Francis
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake ... don't get cynical.
— Ronald Reagan
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
— Henry David Thoreau
Moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.
— Ambrose Bierce
Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation.
— Edwin A. Abbott
Short-term expediency always fails in the long term.
— Frank Herbert
Expediency often silences justice.
— Seneca The Younger
Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.
— Richard Whately
Good. Illegal is always faster.
— Eoin Colfer
It is a rather lamentable fact that few can call upon courage with the expediency they can fear.
— Gitty Daneshvari
That speech (Daniel Webster's) raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.
— Robert A. Caro
[Law] is one part justice to nine parts expediency. Who needs it.
— Lucille Kallen
All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Party honesty is party expediency.
— Grover Cleveland
Where there are few expectations, expediency wins.
— Robert Genn
Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it.
— Virgilia Peterson
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
— Epicurus
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
— W. Somerset Maugham
A lawyer's truth is not Truth. It is consistency, or consistent expediency
— Henry David Thoreau
I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.
— Jimmy Carter
God gives manhood but one clew to success,
utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency. — Wendell Phillips
utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency. — Wendell Phillips
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
— Harold Ford Jr.
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
— Theodore Roosevelt
A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
— Don Marquis
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
— Erwin Rommel
Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
— Quentin Crisp
Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.
— Benjamin Disraeli
If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.
— Philip K. Dick
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?
— William Morley Punshon
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
— Tacitus