Expediency Quotes
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Theodore Roosevelt
Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
Abby Ottenhoff
Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages.Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on the shifting sands.
Henry Ward Beecher
When private virtue is hazarded on the perilous cast of expediency, the pillars of the republic, however apparent their stability, are infected with decay at the very centre.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Many things lawful are not expedient, but nothing can be truly expedient which is unlawful or sinful.
Charles Simmons
Modern man has developed a kind of Gallup-poll mentality, relying on quantity instead of quality and yielding to expediency instead of building a new faith.
Walter Gropius
I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.
Wendell L. Willkie
We are disappointed that after hearing from so many Internet stakeholders about why this proposal is anti-competitive, the ICANN board still approved a known bad deal. The long-term interests of the entire Internet community must prevail over short-term expediency for a few.
Champ Mitchell
MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.
Ambrose Bierce
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
You can\'t learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
William Somerset Maugham
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
Private and public life are subject to the same rules-- truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better then policy or tact or expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.
Robert E. Lee
