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The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly. Alexander Hamilton

Government People Will Nothing Benefit Please Inquiry Constantly Temporary Folly Expedient

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it. Frank Lloyd Wright

Politics Government Freedom Democracy Man Free Rich Else Enslave Machine System Only Individual Individual Freedom Like Make Call Him America Expedient Just Poor Means

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided. Maya Angelou

Truth I Am Right Thing Guided Make Policy Knows How Am Expedient Going The Right Thing Us Popular Company Each Right Thing

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. Alan Paton

You Yourself Expedient Ask Right

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. Aldo Leopold

Examine Economically Terms Well Aesthetically Question Expedient Ethically Each Right

I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right. Ben Carson

Politician Politicians Because Expedient Politically Want Right

Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial. Barbara Amiel

Life People Simple Down Trial Sexual Mention Without Off Camps Dictatorships Labour Hands Sending Expedient Cut Cutting Harassment

It is provided by the Constitution that the President shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient. Chester A. Arthur

Time Constitution Judge Congress President State Consideration Recommend Give Shall He Provided Expedient From Time To Time Information Measures Union Necessary

I think that the president of Iran has the authority wherever which - where - wherever the national interests of the country are involved and, when it is necessary and expedient and required to speak and talk with others in order to promote the rights of its nation, that the president can take that initiative. Hassan Rouhani

Rights Speak Country Nation National Think President Others Promote Take Involved Talk Iran National Interests Authority Expedient Where Order Wherever Which Interests Required Initiative Necessary

All too often our leaders shrink from their responsibilities and choose to do what is politically expedient. Jack Schlossberg

Too Our Responsibilities Leaders Expedient Often Politically Choose Shrink

Measures of policy are necessarily controlled by circumstances; and, consequently, what may be wise and expedient under certain circumstances might be eminently unwise and impolitic under different circumstances. To persist in acting in the same way under circumstances essentially different would be folly and obstinacy, and not consistency. John C. Calhoun

Wise Consistency Way Circumstances Would Would-Be Folly Obstinacy Policy Unwise Persist Same Expedient Controlled May Essentially Different Might Certain Acting Measures Necessarily Consequently

I must repeat what I asserted formerly, that unless some happy expedient can be fallen upon to induce the seamen to enter into the service for a longer term than twelve months, it will never be possible to bring them under proper subordination; and subordination is as necessary, nay, far more so in the fleet than in the army. John Paul Jones

Service Army Happy Will Unless Months Enter Possible Must Some Proper More Never Longer Term Induce Fallen Repeat Than Subordination Expedient Them Far Fleet Twelve Nay Asserted Necessary Bring

If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even waiting in line; frequently these days, while on the phone having been 'put on hold.' Joyce Carol Oates

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It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself. Sandra Day O'Connor

Politics Constitution Fear Values Framers Embodied Find Compromise Majority Passing Were Itself Amendment Expedient Might Measure

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