Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be taking your conscience round from body to… — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn't mean tax increases. We ought to make the, the rates flatter.… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all… — Charles James Copy Share Image
One's worth and self-regard ought to come from individual competitive performance, not from group identity. Pride based on clan or tribal connections… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive;… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
What the Iranians have said is, "we will wipe Israel off the face of the map, and we will bring death to… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I don't spend much on clothes. I buy old books. I tell myself I ought to save - it's the classic Northern… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or… — George Mason Copy Share Image
The focus ought to be on the single fact that Hillary Clinton wants to double down on a failed foreign policy and… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Every human tribunal ought to take care to administer justice, as we look hereafter to have justice administered to ourselves. — Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Copy Share Image
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre. (Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them.) — Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin Copy Share Image
One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
I'm pro-life but I believe that the federal government ought to stay out of it. That's a decision that the people of… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
People need to eat whole food plant foods, primarily... whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. That diet supports our lives. We… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Whoever had the bright idea of putting Indiana Jones in a leather jacket and a fedora in the jungle ought to be… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people's mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you've unravelled them, their… — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Let a man fear, above all, me, his God, and so much the gentler will he become toward my creatures and animals,… — Bridget of Sweden Copy Share Image
To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to… — Jay Chiat Copy Share Image
