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You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right  (Expedient Quotes) Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas  (Expedient Quotes) A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient  (Expedient Quotes) Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient  (Expedient Quotes) Protection is not a principle but an expedient  (Expedient Quotes) It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know  (Expedient Quotes) There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song  (Expedient Quotes) Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient  (Expedient Quotes) Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right  (Expedient Quotes) I will not stagger from expedient to expedient  (Expedient Quotes) Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial  (Expedient Quotes) Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity  (Expedient Quotes) The time has already come when each country needs a considered national policy about what size of population, whether larger or smaller than at present or the same, is most expedient. And having settled this policy, we must take steps to carry it into operation. The time may arrive a little later when the community as a whole must pay attention to the innate quality as well as to the mere numbers of its future members  (Expedient Quotes) 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 the constitution? The only answer that can be given is, that as all these exterior provisions are found to be inadequate, the defect must be supplied, by so contriving the interior structure of the government, as that its several constituent parts may, by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper places  (Expedient Quotes) On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right  (Expedient Quotes) 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 is right only when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community, and the community includes the soil, waters, fauna, and flora, as well as people  (Expedient Quotes) I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or advantageous. But I am able to recognize that the psychological premisses on which the system is based are an untenable illusion. In abolishing private property we deprive the human love of aggression of one of its instruments... but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness  (Expedient Quotes) We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order  (Expedient Quotes) And when a leader embraces their responsibility to care for people instead of caring for numbers, then people will follow, solve problems and see to it that that leader’s vision comes to life the right way, a stable way and not the expedient way  (Expedient Quotes) The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance  (Expedient Quotes) 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 arm that is fighting  (Expedient Quotes) There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking  (Expedient Quotes) If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin  (Expedient Quotes) Is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time  (Expedient Quotes) He hates chess. He says it is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something clever when they are only wasting their time  (Expedient Quotes) It is expedient to have an acquaintance with those who have looked into the world; who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted  (Expedient Quotes) It is expedient there should be gods, and as it is expedient, let us believe them to exist  (Expedient Quotes) Make your decision for what is right not expedient, and wash your mind of all compromise  (Expedient Quotes) Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment  (Expedient Quotes) It is a measure of the framers’ fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself  (Expedient Quotes)
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