If Gifford was doubtful as to the expediency of the plan, and it was with a considerable amount of hesitation that he brought himself to agree to it, he seemed to have no good reason to urge against it.

On the contrary, ordinary acts of legislation are subject to the considerations of expediency for the attainment of the particular objects of the moment, to selfish interests, momentary impulses, passions, prejudices, temptations.

However, as Mr. Wilson knew that I disapproved of the theory and basic principles of the organization, especially the recognition of the oligarchy of the Five Powers, he could not but realize that I considered that idealism had given place to political expediency in order to secure for the Covenant the support of the powerful nations represented at the Conference.

He repudiated expediency as the guide in life, and fell back on the principles of eternal right.

This appointment was frankly made more as a matter of expediency than because any real need had been shown for the creation of such an office.

Their absence has, indeed, deprived us of the opportunity of possessing precise and authentic information of the treaties which were concluded at Panama; and the whole result has confirmed me in the conviction of the expediency to the United States of being represented at the congress.

Only we are eager to temper expediency with mercy.

A cold and selfish act, such as we might expect in Louis XIV. and Madame de Maintenon,yet, nevertheless, the feeble concession which pride and policy make to virtue, the triumph of expediency over all heroic and manly qualities.

Once the principle of liberty of thought is accepted as a supreme condition of social progress, it passes from the sphere of ordinary expediency into the sphere of higher expediency which we call justice.

With respect to the old friends of the cause, it is with regret I mention, that it lost the support of Mr. Windham within this period; and this regret is increased by the consideration, that he went off on the avowed plea of expediency against moral rectitude; a doctrine, which, at least upon this subject, he had reprobated for ten years.

He would now try this argument of expediency by other considerations.

Thus, those who from the materialistic standpoint deny the necessity of war will admit its expediency from motives of self-interest.

There is the same defect in this great work that there is in the Life of Cromwell,the inculcation of the doctrine that might makes right; that we may do evil that good may come,thus putting expediency above eternal justice, and palliating crimes because of their success.

He became sensible, arguable, uncertain, submitting himself to the balances of reason and expediency like the rest of us.

What hurt him most was the curious fact that, for all her light irresponsibility, it was always she who made the practical suggestion, hit the nail of expediency on the head.