Necessities Quotes

The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.

I'm big on simplicity. I'm not too much on all the extra instruments.

How necessary for modern liberty a national representative government is—a representative system comprehending the whole state

I see tens of millions of its citizens--a substantial part of its whole population--who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life.

We are not expecting Utopia here on this earth. But God meant things to be much easier than we have made them. A man has a natural right to food, clothing, and shelter. A certain amount of goods is necessary to lead a good life.

I believe in corporations. I believe in trade unions. Both have come to stay and are necessities in our present industrial system, But where, either one or the other, there develops corruption or mere brutal indifference to the rights of others … then the offender, whether union or corporation, must be fought.

You can no more build up homes without men than you can build up the state without women. We are needed everywhere where human problems are to be solved. Men and women must go through this world together from the cradle to the grave; it is God's way and the fundamental principle of a Republican form of government

Franklin, you may have to assume dictatorial powers.

There is the freedom from want, despair and psychological insecurity that would come from having income sufficient to provide the necessities of life. But there is also the freedom to choose not to work for a time in order to take care of family members, pursue a passion, acquire education or contribute to a worthwhile community project. There is the freedom to start a new business with an uncertain future, the freedom to say yes to a job that pays little but yields joy and satisfaction — and the freedom to say no to a job that pays too little or is demeaning and unpleasant. Why, they ask, should such freedoms be reserved only for the wealthy?

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

This party [the Progressive Party] comes from the grass roots. It has grown from the soil of the people's hard necessities.

I love nice things - I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury - but I've known what it's like to be poor.

I don't need anything to live, to be honest. Give me a mattress or a futon on the floor and I'll be the happiest camper.

War sometimes is a necessary instrument to bring clarity to a society.

I usually carry my wallet, phone, Chapstick, and a snack at all times.

When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food! Everything else - power, influence, strength - all those things can overpower what's important in life. But as long as you have food and shelter over your head, if the necessities are taken care of, what makes us happy on top of that is very simple.

Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, than a single proprietor possessing a hundred thousand a year.

If I'm on holiday, I travel light, but if it is a work trip, I take everything but the kitchen sink.

We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.

It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.

There is so much that people take for granted.

I hate to say it, but I am not used to travelling light. I always prefer being ready for any situation! So, a lot of things go with me wherever I go.

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.