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Quotes About Inexpedient

INEXPEDIENT, adj. Not calculated to advance one's interests.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.
~ Henry David Thoreau