I think we can remember our past without valorizing parts…

It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought…

— Pope Leo XIII

I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils…

— John Quincy Adams

This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the…

— Jean Liedloff

The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you…

— Stephen King

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

— Daniel Kahneman

Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh…

— Galileo Galilei

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

— Elizabeth Bibesco

Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal…

— Joseph Addison

We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to…

— John Randolph of Roanoke

We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we…

— William James

The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it…

— Noam Chomsky

In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who…

— William James

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

— James Weldon Johnson

Force ought to follow justice and not to precede.

— Edward Coke

We must allow the Bible to say what is says, not what we think it ought to say.

— Jerry Bridges