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.