Ought Quotes · Page 106

Both [Donald] Trump and Bernie [Sanders] got to this idea of the vanishing middle class sooner and with more passion than more…

— George Saunders

Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church, consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by his…

— Jonathan Edwards

If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it…

— Hannah Arendt

If God's people are to be living examples of one thing, that thing ought to be - it must be - compassion.

— Charles R. Swindoll

In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights is an essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the…

— James Madison

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that…

— Pearl S. Buck

Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary;…

— Mark Twain

In our system, grand juries take every charge, every lie, and they try to sort the truth from the lies, and then…

— Paul Begala

And when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves.

— George William Norris

When we worship God as we ought that's when the nations listen.

— Edmund Clowney

If we might reverently imagine ourselves scheming beforehand what kind of book the Book of God ought to be, how different would…

— Henry Parry Liddon

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Bolkenstein, a Minister, was speaking on the Dutch programme from London, and he said that they ought to make a collection of…

— Anne Frank

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of…

— Henry Ford

[Black Hawk] has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came year after year, to cheat them…

— Black Hawk

A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to…

— John Stuart Mill

I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.

— Eleanor Catton

Whenever we propose a solution to a problem, we ought to try as hard as we can to overthrow our solution, rather…

— Karl Popper

We waited for Congress to act. They couldn't act on the issue. So I just went ahead and signed an executive order…

— George W. Bush

I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.

— Walter Cronkite

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.

— Jane Austen

Instead I ought to be grateful to Him who never owed me anything for having been so generous to me, rather than…

— Rene Descartes

The most happy ought to wish for death.

— Seneca the Younger

The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we…

— Paul Wellstone