#expediency

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Custom adapts itself to expediency. ↗

— Tacitus

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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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Good. Illegal is always faster. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

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