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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient. -- Horace
You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. -- Alan Paton
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. -- Joshua Reynolds
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. -- Richard Dawkins
I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected. -- Luis Fortuno
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. -- Aldo Leopold
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin. -- Katharine Butler Hathaway
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. -- Joseph Conrad
I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right. -- Ben Carson
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. -- James Russell Lowell
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment. -- Barry Commoner
The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly. -- Alexander Hamilton
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Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial. -- Barbara Amiel
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains develop because they are an expedient way of managing life in a body. -- Antonio Damasio
It is provided by the Constitution that the President shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient. -- Chester A. Arthur
If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even waiting in line; frequently these days, while on the phone having been 'put on hold.' -- Joyce Carol Oates
It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us. -- Jonathan Mayhew
All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided. -- Maya Angelou
I think that the president of Iran has the authority wherever which - where - wherever the national interests of the country are involved and, when it is necessary and expedient and required to speak and talk with others in order to promote the rights of its nation, that the president can take that initiative. -- Hassan Rouhani
Relish what is good and expedient. -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Protection is not a principle but an expedient -- Benjamin Disraeli
I will not stagger from expedient to expedient. -- Margaret Thatcher
Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient. -- Simone de Beauvoir
It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know. -- Publilius Syrus
Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas. -- William E. Gladstone
There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song. -- William Shenstone
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. -- Alan Paton
Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Make your decision for what is right not expedient, and wash your mind of all compromise. -- B. J. Palmer
for the mere act of thinking a course expedient, when it is morally wrong, is demoralizing -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary. -- Seneca the Younger
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. -- Joshua Reynolds
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. -- Henry David Thoreau
Accusing a politician of being politically expedient is like accusing water of being wet or circles for being round. -- Greg Gutfeld
It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist. -- Ovid
When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none. -- John Tillotson
Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way. -- Abraham Lincoln
My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right? -- Dexter Scott King
Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way. -- William Langewiesche
Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity. -- Edward Abbey
We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time -- George Bernard Shaw
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. -- George Bernard Shaw
With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose. -- Norm MacDonald
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
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
We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order. -- Adolf Hitler
The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education. -- Catherine the Great
I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember. -- Radclyffe Hall
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship -- James Russell Lowell
In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the species. -- Konrad Lorenz
Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control. -- C. S. Lewis
It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine. -- Plato
We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting. -- Andre Gide
An uniformity of weights and measures, arranged upon mathematical principles, would be a benefit to the whole commercial world, if it were wise enough to adopt such an expedient. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
The true'to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving. -- William James
Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written. -- A. V. Dicey
The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by 'the people' is expedient or it is not. If it is expedient, then obviously all the people must be included. -- Carrie Chapman Catt
I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be halved. -- Robert Byron
A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle. -- Ambrose Bierce
In every treaty, insert a clause which can easily be violated, so that the entire agreement can be broken in case the interests of the State make it expedient to do so. -- Louis XIV
It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted. -- George Horne
[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures. -- George Washington
But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever is expedient to protect the interests that are at stake. -- Malcolm X
Whenever government assumed responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of citizens, the costs of government rise beyond the point where it is politically expedient to cover them by direct tax levies. -- Leonard Read
Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial." -- Barbara Amiel
Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon because it was the militaristically expedient thing to do. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing . . .social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery' even though black children grew up with two parents more often under slavery than today. -- Thomas Sowell

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