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Policy sits above conscience.
Expediency often silences justice.
Party honesty is party expediency.
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Where there are few expectations, expediency wins.
Judgment without character is expediency... or worse.
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?
Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation.
It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.
A Constitution is not meant to be a flexible arrangement which evolves from one decade to another depending on political expediency.
I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
Whether it was the Alaskan pipeline disaster or the Texas City refinery fire where 15 people died, time after time it's been shown that BP chooses expediency over safety.
If you choose to put political expediency and politics ahead of the men and women on the ground, for that, you'll have to answer to yourself. I find it morally reprehensible.
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.
The United States Senate is already chock full of career politicians and insiders who fall in line for political expediency and refuse to stand up and speak out for the American people.
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.
On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'
Judgments that give an impression that we can disregard the Constitution for political expediency, or to solve what we regard as current problems, set a dangerous precedence which will make it difficult to govern in future or to make ordinary citizens to abide by the Constitution.
The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those.
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.
If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.