Expediency is the motto of the world.

Christian obligation cannot be made to accord with a law of expediency. The Christian's maxims are, Do right because you are bound to do…

— Francis Landey Patton

It's time for the wealthy to pay their fair share before the middle class becomes the forgotten class.- And it's time for the banks…

— Stephen King

I believe this nation hungers for a spiritual revival; hungers to once again see honor placed above political expediency; to see government once again…

— Ronald Reagan

“To rule is to kneel before expediency.”

— Steven Erikson

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but…

— James Russell Lowell

The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the…

— Edmund Burke

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

— Richard Whately

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

— Ambrose Bierce

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of…

— Benjamin Cardozo

I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or…

— Han Suyin

Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not…

— Arthur Helps

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Don Marquis

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

— Virgilia Peterson