Expediency Quotes

Expediency Quote of the day

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.

Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.

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

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

Policy sits above conscience.

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

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are responsible for the growth of ISIS because they precipitously withdrew from Iraq in 2011 against the advice of every single general and for political expediency.

To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me, is double hypocritical.

I am a libertarian with a small "l" and a Republican with a capital "R". And I am a Republican with a capital "R" on grounds of expediency, not on principle.

Neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power.

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?

Expediency often silences justice.

Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.

Good. Illegal is always faster.

Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it.

Judgment without character is expediency... or worse.

God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.

[Law] is one part justice to nine parts expediency. Who needs it.

Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake . . . don't get cynical.

Where there are few expectations, expediency wins.

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.

All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.

What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something that's put together every four years?

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders.

Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation.

Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?

As the pace of the campaign quickened, politics began to clash with Kennedy's innate sense of responsibility. – Arthur Schlesinger

If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.