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Party honesty is party expediency. -- Grover Cleveland
Custom adapts itself to expediency. -- Tacitus
Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow. -- Roy Hattersley
More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency. -- Peter Singer
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress. -- Quentin Crisp
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. -- Henry David Thoreau
Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency. -- Pope Francis
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. -- Benjamin Disraeli
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. -- Erwin Rommel
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder. -- Lao Tzu
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder. -- Lao Tzu
There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence. -- Jonathan Raban
The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those. -- Eric Cantor
Expediency often silences justice. -- Seneca the Younger
Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced. -- Benjamin Cardozo
Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation. -- Edwin A. Abbott
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right? -- William Morley Punshon
Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Policy sits above conscience. -- William Shakespeare
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. -- Epicurus
moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency. -- Ambrose Bierce
I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. -- Jimmy Carter
In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever. -- Socrates
An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety. -- Gary Hamel
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.
neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power -- John Money
The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can; when we cannot do all we would wish. -- Thomas Jefferson
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love. -- Chuck Schumer
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love. -- Chuck Schumer
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal. -- James Russell Lowell
Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of the people perhaps. But, In spite of their numerical inferiority, they play a major role in our society because theirs is the voice of the conscience of society. -- Leo Szilard
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure. -- Max Weber
Principle is ever my motto, no expediency. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Where there are few expectations, expediency wins. -- Robert Genn
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. -- Theodore Roosevelt
[Law] is one part justice to nine parts expediency. Who needs it. -- Lucille Kallen
Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it. -- Virgilia Peterson
I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains. -- Wendell Willkie
Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer. -- Don Marquis
If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties. -- Dalai Lama
It is a rather lamentable fact that few can call upon courage with the expediency they can fear. -- Gitty Daneshvari
God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency. -- Wendell Phillips
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
... 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
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
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
To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me, is double hypocritical. -- Serj Tankian
Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood. -- Golda Meir
Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them. -- Epicurus
What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something that's put together every four years? -- Hunter S. Thompson
Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity. -- Woodrow Wilson
My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency, -- Shirley Chisholm
A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers. -- Ronald Reagan
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are responsible for the growth of ISIS because they precipitously withdrew from Iraq in 2011 against the advice of every single general and for political expediency. -- Carly Fiorina
I am a libertarian with a small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R'. And I am a Republican with a capital 'R' on grounds of expediency, not on principle. -- Milton Friedman
There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders. -- Henry David Thoreau
When it comes to politics and elections, far too many Christians spend more time appealing to family, history and tradition, culture, racial expediency, and personal preference than they do to what the Bible teaches. -- Tony Evans
Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight thither. The moment he glances toward expediency, he falls from his high estate. -- John Peter Altgeld
It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic. -- Benjamin Cardozo

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