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Necessity Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.
- I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day,…
- Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest…
- I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.
- The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one…
- The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth…
- From the dissensions among Sects themselves arise necessarily a right of choosing and necessity of deliberating to which we will conform. But if we choose…
- I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their…
- Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
- A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The…
- A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. 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