#expediency

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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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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Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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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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