Expedience Quotes

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

Before some things can be politically expedient, they must first become popular.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

Opinions upon moral questions are more often the expression of strongly felt expediency than of careful ethical reasoning

I believe cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically inexpedient, and have therefore always discontinued its use, even from a practical standpoint.

I give dignity second place to expedience.

Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.

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 because it was the militaristically expedient thing to do.

Treaties were expedients by which ignorant, intractable, and savage people were induced without bloodshed to yield up what civilized peoples had a right to possess.