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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency. ↗

— Peter Singer

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Custom adapts itself to expediency. ↗

— Tacitus

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But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. ↗

— Erwin Rommel

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow. ↗

— Roy Hattersley

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Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down. ↗

— Charles Adams

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The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those. ↗

— Eric Cantor

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Party honesty is party expediency. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

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I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency. ↗

— Harold Ford

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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

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