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

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

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.

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth but consistency or a consistent expediency.

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.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity or if it is insisted upon by a commander irresponsibility.