#necessary

The Iraq war was not necessary. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#iraq war #necessary #war

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#art #away #brink #get #getting

My purpose was to get leave to bring my party into the settlements in order to outfit and to obtain the supplies that had now become necessary. ↗

— John Charles Fremont

#bring #get #had #into #leave

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary. ↗

— Peter Sellers

#honeymoon #like #set #television #television set

In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#bind #colonists #existed #i #last

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out. ↗

— Arthur Young

#brought #contained #just #necessary #out

You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we were brought to the verge of war. Of course we were brought to the verge of war. The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art... If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. We've had to look it square in the face... We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face. We took strong action. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#necessary #peace #take-chances #war #art

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#change #first #necessary #resistance #say

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar. ↗

— Grace Paley

#fittest #good #interest #life #necessary

That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#dust #falls #feet #heard #individual