Expedient Quotes

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All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy… — Maya Angelou
In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The… — Walter Prescott Webb
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient. — Horace
Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the… — Andre Gide
I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to play in pursuit… — Sonia Sotomayor
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. — Alan Paton
In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the… — Konrad Lorenz
In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way. — Abraham Lincoln
A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form… — Ambrose Bierce
My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right? — Dexter Scott King
I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint. — Mahatma Gandhi
Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are valueless. You cannot… — Richard Branson
The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing… — Aldo Leopold
Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our own,… — Steve Perry
Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when… — Selma LagerlÃ¶f
[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the… — George Washington
To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in… — James Madison
With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose. — Norm MacDonald

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