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Necessity Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in…
- Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . .…
- Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the…
- A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly…
- I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it.…
- We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the…
More Necessity Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. — Saint Augustine
- Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. — Edward Abbey
- Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone… — Eric Bana
- The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a… — John Adams
- No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank… — Bruce Barton
- The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. — Robert Benchley
- Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order… — John Berger
- Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole,… — Annie Besant
- Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake… — Annie Besant
- Physical contact is a human necessity. — David Byrne
- The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity. — Lord Byron