“Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.”
Henry David Thoreau
“But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.”
Erwin Rommel
“There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence.”
Jonathan Raban
“Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency.”
James Webb
“Custom adapts itself to expediency”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
“Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.”
Roy Hattersley
