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.
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one mus...
All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that ...
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Relish what is good and expedient.
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
Party honesty is party expediency.
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.
Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
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.
Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
