I think we ought to call (Republicans who sign the Norquist no tax pledge) exactly what they are - they are traitors… — Bill Press Copy Share Image
With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Landholders ought to have a share in the government to support these invaluable interests and check the other many. They ought to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how… — Daniel Quinn 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
Wikileaks is a democratizing force. Its giving individuals access to decisions and thinking by their representatives and in a democracy that ought… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
I mean there are a lot of people - maybe a lot, I know how many - who really thought that when… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A good breeder or experienced rescue agency wants you to prove that you'll be a capable caretaker. The interrogation and screening can… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas… — Christopher Hitchens 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
When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
He is the so-called father of the modern school of chess; before him, the King was considered a weak piece and players… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose. — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Wars are generally fought for material things; they're not fought over ideals. After we get into them, we are told we are… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
There's some wisdom and no moral deficiency to one who holds courage in reserve and uses it as a last resort. Before… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
The language of translation ought never to attract attention to itself. — John Hookham Frere Copy Share Image
A stage play ought to be the point of intersection between the visible and invisible worlds, or, in other words, the display,… — Arthur Adamov Copy Share Image
I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it,… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined… — George C. Homans Copy Share Image
O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty.… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand.… — Lawrence Eagleburger Copy Share Image
even the best of constitutions need sometimes to be amended and improved, for after all there is but one constitution which is… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image