Expedient Quotes

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

Freedom, Government, Democracy

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Richard Dawkins

Faith, Simple, Blind

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Thomas A. Edison

Thinking, Labor, Avoid

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

Politics, Good, Wise

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
Horace

Good, Judge, Faithful

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Fear, Find, Might

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

Artist, Action, Whether

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

Waiting, Put, Place

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

Simple, While, Quality

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.
Aldo Leopold

Question, Terms, Ethically

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

Life, Simple, Down

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

Happiness, Good, Government

I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.
Luis Fortuno

Office, Correct

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
Alan Paton

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

Life, Fear, Instinct

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