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Expediency Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be…
- moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.
- Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave misgivings
More Expediency Quotes
- The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell… — Eric Cantor
- The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating… — George Washington
- Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight… — John Peter Altgeld
- When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and… — Elihu Root
- The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress. — Quentin Crisp
- Party honesty is party expediency. — Grover Cleveland
- Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. — Epicurus
- The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion… — Benjamin Cardozo
- Where it is in his own interest, every organism may reasonably be expected to aid his fellows. Where he has no alternative,… — Michael Ghiselin
- Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world… — Robert E. Lee
- When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is… — Laozi
- When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of… — Alexander Hamilton