Quotations on Expediency

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Party honesty is party expediency.
- Grover Cleveland
(Keywords: Honesty, Expediency, Party)

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
- Quentin Crisp
(Keywords: Dress, Expediency, Law)

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
- Erwin Rommel
(Keywords: Courage, Expediency, Military, Stupidity)

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.
- Charles Schumer
(Keywords: Life, Love, Arguments, Expediency, Road)

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
- Lao Tzu
(Keywords: Truth, Virtue, Beginning, Benevolence, Disorder, Expediency, Right, Shadow)