There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't love women. Love has to be reinvented, we know that. The only thing women can ultimately imagine is security. Once… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Minds that are stupid and incapable of science are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Sacred interpreter of human thought, How few respect or use thee as they ought! But all shall give account of every wrong,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Our concern for human rights comes to the fore when there are gross violations of human decencies. Then other countries, including China,… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Surely it's better to live in the country, to live on a prairie by a drawing of rivers, in Iowa or Illinois… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Students who are alien and hostile to the education process ought to be removed. You say, "What will we do with them?"… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
When our party took over political power, the exploiting classes and reactionary forces went into action. The only rusty and antiquated tool… — Nur Muhammad Taraki Copy Share Image
It's naive and even irresponsible for a grownup today to get her or his information about foreign policy and war and peace… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If any man is not sure that he is in Christ, he ought not to be easy one moment until he is… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Even if you need, and want, a second opinion, it can be dangerous to have people telling you what they think you… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
No matter how much of our liberty Washington takes away in the name of security, there are no guarantees that there won't… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Supreme Court nominees should know without any doubt that their job is not to impose their own personal opinions of what is… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot… — Bob Ney Copy Share Image
In any society freedom of thought will probably be of direct significance for a small minority. But this does not mean that… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
So, you see, it's a real chore for me to write a book review because it's like a contest. It's like I'm… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Religious life ought to promote growth in the Church by way of attraction. The Church must be attractive. Wake up the world!… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
[Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal return] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
I'm one of the only members of the U.S. Senate who isn't a millionaire. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with being a… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
Beyond the horizon, or even the knowledge, of the cities along the coast, a great, creative impulse is at work -- the… — Vance Palmer Copy Share Image
Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful, and great fatigue,… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
I think what we ought to be focusing on is that we are on path for the release of 75,000 pages of… — Alberto Gonzales Copy Share Image
I believe that we can accomplish any object that we make up our minds to, and no boy or girl ought to… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
We ought to increase legal immigration for our country's advantage. The high-tech world we are now dominating is dependent on educated folks,… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The idea of infidelity [a disbelief in the inspiration of the Scriptures or the divine origin of Christianity] cannot be treated with… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I kind of think that if you show conspiracy theorists a photo of the dead Bin Laden they will come up with… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image