The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Libya was a terrible mistake. You know, frankly, that's something that people ought to be thinking about in regard to Hillary [Clinton].… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people mistake fire in the belly for too much pepperoni pizza the night before. They make a great speech and people… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
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In the very nature of every human being has been sown the seed of the ability to love. You and I ought… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
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What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! It seems… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
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All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so… — David Hume Copy Share Image
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Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
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