"Strategy is a system of expedients" — Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

More Expedients Quotes

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• Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. — Henry Ward Beecher
• That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,… — Ben Jonson
• I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not… — Samuel Johnson
• To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the… — Alexander Hamilton
• There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles… — Alexander Hamilton
• There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul… — Phillips Brooks
• To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the… — Alexander Hamilton
• That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that… — Frederick Jackson Turner
• It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see… — Margaret Thatcher
• It is easy to prescribe improvement for others; it is easy to organize something, to institutionalize this or that, to… — Albert J. Nock
• Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow,… — Henry Ward Beecher
• The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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