If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable… — Ernie Fletcher Copy Share Image
You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community.… — Dick Murphy Copy Share Image
Kate Boo's reporting is a form of kinship. Abdul and Manju and Kalu of Annawadi will not be forgotten. She leads us… — Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Copy Share Image
The reasonableness of the agency of the national courts in cases in which the state tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it… — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don't care who you are or what you do at home or… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment,… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
If someone asked me what a human being ought to devote the maximum of his life to, I would answer: training. Train… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen. — Dennis Flanagan Copy Share Image
The Eucharist, behold the Christian's treasure, his delight on earth. Since Jesus is in the Eucharist for him personally, his whole life… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We ought to get back to making America great again, which is what we're going to do. And we've already started the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear; With God and Fate to… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is an old motto that runs, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This is nonsense. It ought to… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Hiking. I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains...the se mountains are our Holy… — John Muir Copy Share Image
If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Here are the three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong?… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
You should recognize that criticism is not always a put down. If you take it to heart, maybe it will guide the… — Joseph H. Flom Copy Share Image
When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is… — James Baker Copy Share Image
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most… — Plato Copy Share Image
How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they… — George Foreman Copy Share Image
