It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people. — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch. — Scott McNealy Copy Share Image
Don't fake enthusiasms. Say what you think, not what you think you ought to think. — Darcy O'Brien Copy Share Image
An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction. — William Henry Maule Copy Share Image
The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. — James Madison Copy Share Image
If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Every once in a while you ought to kiss a young lady. And every once in a while you ought to kiss… — Jon Miller Copy Share Image
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
It [the internet] should be publicly controlled but Washington is not a system of public control, it's mainly a system of corporate… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Sacred interpreter of human thought, How few respect or use thee as they ought! But all shall give account of every wrong,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Minds that are stupid and incapable of science are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It's naive and even irresponsible for a grownup today to get her or his information about foreign policy and war and peace… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“Neither in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I typically don't use the distinction 'positive' and 'negative' liberty, because negative sounds bad and positive sounds good, and I don't think… — Randy Barnett Copy Share Image
If the seminary is too large, it ought to be divided into smaller communities with formators who are equipped really to accompany… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The industrial and social injustice of our era is the tragic aftermath of democracy's overemphasis on freedom as the "right to do… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The more science learns, the clearer it is that although we are here, we shouldn't be. Once we begin considering the details… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights is an essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. — John Dunning Copy Share Image
You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image