For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself.
Expediency asks the question, is it polite.
Vanity asks the question is it popular. But conscience asks the question, is it right. And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor polite, nor popular. But one must take it because it is right. In 1868, one vote saved President Andrew Johnson from impeachment.