If government is in the hands of the few, they will tyrannize the many; if in the hands of the many, they… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
Let a man begin in earnest with "I ought," and he will end, by God's grace, if he persevere, with "I will."… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
... the photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
Were you to converse with a king, you ought to be as easy and unembarrassed as with your own valet-de chambre; but… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Leave Christ out? O my brethren, better leave the pulpit out altogether. If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ’s… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
People have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have… — Birch Bayh Copy Share Image
Ambitious and thought-provoking, Higher Education in America represents an informed and informative addition to ongoing debates at the national, state, and institutional… — David M. Brown Copy Share Image
By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
I believe that this president [George W. Bush], regrettably, rushed us into a war, made decisions about foreign policy, pushed alliances away.… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration… — George Mason Copy Share Image
The only way we can determine the true age of the earth is for God to tell us what it is. And… — Henry M. Morris Copy Share Image
If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
It [the internet] should be publicly controlled but Washington is not a system of public control, it's mainly a system of corporate… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
... the Apostle says, 'he that says he abides in Christ ought himself also to walk as He walked' (I Jn. 2:6).… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
I think it’s time to open the books on questions that have remained in the dark on the question of government investigations… — John Podesta Copy Share Image
I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I would like to see a contribution-free election that permitted the people to vote as opposed to corporations. There really ought to… — Mickey Edwards Copy Share Image
Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in… — Novalis Copy Share Image
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
...what I feel we ought to do at this juncture is to dash off somewhere where it's quiet and there aren't so… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
So yes in theory there is a kind of a formal democracy and in many ways these were achievements and an improvement… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a… — William Falconer Copy Share Image
I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Many people have traveled all their lives and yet do not know how to behave themselves when on the road... Ladies and… — Edgar Wilson Nye Copy Share Image
Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Some things need to be a song. Some things need to be a play. Some things need to be a painting. Some… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
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