A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves.

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.

Necessity has no law.

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

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

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.