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• Custom adapts itself to expediency.

  Tacitus

  Habit, Customs

  Tacitus (2013). “The Annals”, p.253, Courier Corporation

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Truth, Consistency

  Civil Disobedience (1849)

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• Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?

  William Morley Punshon

  Safe, Cowardice, Asks

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• In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.

  Socrates

  Winning, Say Anything, Way

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• Neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power.

  John Money

  Tolerance, Reason, Social

  "Homosexuality: Bipotenitality, Terminology, and History" by John Money,

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• A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

  Ronald Reagan

  Party, Numbers, People

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.41, Humanix Books

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• Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Voiceless, Safe

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1973). “The Role of the Behavioral Scientist in the Civil Rights Movement”

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• The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Men, Essentials, Reign

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.85, Stanford University Press

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• Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Principles, Politics, Motto

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2764, Delphi Classics

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Quality, Morality, Standards

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.146, 谷月社

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Animal, Law, Camels

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3319, Delphi Classics

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• Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

  Epicurus

  Men, Justice, Ethics

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• In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a Christian must also be a a nonconformist. Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Spiritual, Men

  "Strength to Love". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr. , Ch. 2, 1963.

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• We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.

  Samuel Fuller

  Democracy, Bricks, Nazi

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• Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

  Epicurus

  Men, Natural Justice, Protect

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• I cannot too greatly emphasize the importance and value of Bible study - more important than ever before in these days of uncertainties, when men and woman are apt to decide questions from the standpoint of expediency rather than the eternal principles laid down by God, Himself.

  John Wanamaker

  Men, Important, Principles

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• We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Waiting, Democracy, Majority

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803”, p.107, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Examination, Raised

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• This is not only a matter of relations between Russia and the United States. In my view, any restrictions in the economic sphere that are dictated by considerations of political expediency are extremely harmful for the world economy as a whole. This destroys unity and the rules of the game.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Views, Games

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I am a libertarian with a small "l" and a Republican with a capital "R". And I am a Republican with a capital "R" on grounds of expediency, not on principle.

  Milton Friedman

  Principles, Libertarian, Republican

  "Charlie Rose Show", November 2005.

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• When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county, government would be impracticable. There must be a perpetual accomodation and sacrifice of local advantage to general expediency.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Sacrifice, Government, Federalism

  Alexander Hamilton (1957). “Alexander Hamilton: selections representing his life, his thought, and his style”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• I have found in my experience that expediency, whether it is practical or not, is an unreliable guide for behavior. Human behavior must be guided by a higher principle. Practicality has its place but only within a framework of values, which all men of good will share.

  King Hussein I

  Men, Principles, Behavior

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• To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we want to convince a congregation of a certain thing, we may use terror to frighten them into it; but never say that is God's way, it is our way. To call that God's method is a travesty to the character of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Believe, Character, Men

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• Where there are few expectations, expediency wins.

  Robert Genn

  Winning, Expectations

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• The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of all creeds and persuasions-must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unvarnished by fashion and uncompromised by expediency.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Fashion, Home, Race

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.456, Best Books on

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