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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Expediency

Expediency is the science of exigencies.

Kossuth.

Expediency often silences justice.

Seneca.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

Beaconsfield.

It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.

La Rochefoucauld.

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

Whately.