... in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Almost everyone agrees the world is not the way it ought to be. It's called the problem of evil. — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors. — Plato Copy Share Image
I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
People ought to shop smart and really think about what they are buying. — Allen Crawford Copy Share Image
Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure… — Robert Forman Horton Copy Share Image
The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries… — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the… — Plato Copy Share Image
Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course,… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
I don't do much to keep in trim - I try to walk places instead of driving whenever I can, but I… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
If there's no connection between the tactic and the result you're trying to achieve, and if in the process you can damage… — Allard K. Lowenstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes, we find ourselves as conservatives being angry when we should be joyful, finding ourselves being negative when we should be positive,… — Kevin Cramer Copy Share Image
Do what you know you ought to do. Why should we ever go abroad, even across the way, to ask a neighbor's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I think they (Thatcher protesters) ought to be grateful for the fact that the people who hold our (pro-Thatcher) views, and who… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we… — John Locke Copy Share Image
It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A lot of our fellow liberals ... seem to me rather to doom themselves to futility in public affairs because the won't… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, and still more what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am saying that out of a spirit of appreciation and gratitude, and a sense of duty, you ought to make whatever… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings. — Marie de France Copy Share Image
When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence. — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few. — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
