Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
Expediency asks the question - is it political?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.
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Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
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 one must take it because it is right.
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Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency.
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Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
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Private and public life are subject to the same rules; and truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy, or tact, or expediency, or any other word that was ever devised to conceal or mystify a deviation from the straight line.
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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.
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Party honesty is party duty, and party courage is party expediency.
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Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
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Cowardice asks Is it safe Expediency asks Is it politic But Conscience asks Is it right
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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
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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.
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Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?
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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency
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