It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections;… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think… — Warren Giles Copy Share Image
The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Nothing is ever done until everyone is convinced that it ought to be done, and has been convinced for so long that… — Francis Cornford Copy Share Image
About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I have never felt any inward assurance of genius, or any presentiment of glory or of happiness. I have never seen myself… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
When you are before the altar where Christ reposes, you ought no longer to think that you are amongst men; but believe… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Really, one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision, but… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
It is always unconscionable for the government to punish people for expressing an idea merely because government officials - or the majority… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should… — Plato Copy Share Image
With the Republican Party's presidential front-runner proposing that all Muslims should be banned from entering the United States, that perhaps there ought… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world. — John Gummer Copy Share Image
My purpose is to make sure that we protect every American, wherever that American is, and if an American is calling out… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
When "Search and Destroy" by the Stooges came on as a Nike shoe commercial, I got physically sick. That song meant the… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never… — Richard Hooker Copy Share Image
I ought to be groovy and be able to say the enemy is this and the enemy is that... but I've never… — Rik Mayall Copy Share Image
...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Donald Trump ought to realise that being a president is different to being a candidate and that there is a responsibility that… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without… — J. Irwin Miller Copy Share Image
I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was,… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the… — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples — Henri La Fontaine Copy Share Image
There is nothing going on and in the meantime we do know that our democracy is under assault by the KGB. To… — James Carville Copy Share Image
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We ought to take him offshore and dunk him 10 feet underwater and pull him up and ask him What's that all… — Billy Nungesser Copy Share Image
Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles,… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable. — Justin Kaplan Copy Share Image
I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A good boxer, in striking the round blow, instead of loosening body and arm, gathers himself into a heap of muscularity and… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image