Careful Words

expediency (n.)

  Principle is ever my motto, not expediency.

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) (1805-1881): Sybil. Book ii. Chap. ii.

  Party honesty is party expediency.

Grover Cleveland (1837-1908): Interview in New York Commercial Advertiser, Sept. 19, 1889.