I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
John F. Kennedy

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Pablo Picasso

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
Groucho Marx

Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Robert H. Schuller

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
Mae West

Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais Nin

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
Ernest Hemingway

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Ernest Hemingway

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Abraham Maslow

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Henry Ford

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
Martin Luther

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
Leonardo da Vinci

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan Swift

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine