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Quotes About Necessity

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.
~ James Monroe
The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.
~ William Henry Harrison
That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied.
~ Alexander Hamilton
All government is an ugly necessity.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.
~ James Madison
The absolute necessity to create a proper Earth government' - we should inscribe this as the priority item on the agenda of world affairs.
~ Robert Muller
It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary.
~ Ludwig von Mises
As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.
~ James Monroe
No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.
~ Marie Corelli
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
~ John Locke
Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death; without it, salvation and supernatural happiness the beatific vision of God - are impossible.
~ Pope Pius XII
All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.
~ William Shakespeare
It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.
~ Douglas Horton
Happiness is a necessity. It's not a thing money can buy but a feeling that comes from within.
~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa
Free education and health care are essential for the welfare of the population.
~ Jose Ramos-Horta
Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
~ Frank Langella
You can't help everyone and most critically you can't help people who don't need you or see the value you have to offer
~ Bernard Kelvin Clive
History is at once freedom and necessity.
~ Antonio Gramsci
History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.
~ Terry Eagleton
Home staging is no longer optional in this real estate market, it is a must!
~ Barbara Corcoran
Home staging used to be optional. Today, it's a necessity in selling a house.
~ Barbara Corcoran