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Expediency Quotes

Expediency Definition

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
Erwin Rommel

Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Tacitus

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.
Charles Schumer

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
Roy Hattersley

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.
Peter Singer

Party honesty is party expediency.
Grover Cleveland

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.
Charles Adams

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

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
W. Somerset Maugham

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

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