“As James Madison put it, the nation ought to be constituted “to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose. — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
[I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
he'd know that I think that . . . well, that bending an enemy's will through military force is the absolute last… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One good Man may take another's Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nation ought never to trust to any Honesty,… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image