To be stupid selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness though if stupidity is lacking all is lost.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation plan carefully before making a move and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

A battle lost or won is easily described understood and appreciated but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection as well as observation to appreciate it.

It does not take much strength to do things but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

All great achievements require time.

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test which I would not have been able to do.

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers always on trial for their political lives always required to court their restless constituents.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard fast and specific decision.

We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature a type nowhere at present existing.

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save invest innovate and work.

We believe as our founders did that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another then I say break the law.

For evil to flourish it only requires good men to do nothing.

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

To the citizens of Israel I say: we have passed difficult years faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for for so many years: security tranquillity and peace.

If we wish our state's growth to continue then our future will increasingly be with industries that require a highly skilled and technically proficient workforce.

The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place.

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.