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Definition of Expediency
Expediency
The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude.

Expedition; haste; dispatch.

An expedition; enterprise; adventure.

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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Henry David Thoreau

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

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
Quentin Crisp

Party honesty is party expediency.
Grover Cleveland

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

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

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

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

Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Tacitus



Expediency Translations
expediency in French is convenance
expediency in Norwegian is hensiktsmessighet
expediency in Spanish is oportunidad


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