Ought Quotes · Page 9

I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.

— Walter Cronkite

There ought to be a law against necessity.

— Anonymous

He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.

— Aesop

We ought to be bragging about Florida!

— Rick Scott

We ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal.

— John Boehner

Theodore Dreiser Should ought to write nicer.

— Theodore Dreiser

Families ought to be noisy.

— Benjamin Franklin

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

— William James

Russia ought to get Iran to back out of the proxy wars they are involved in.

— Michael T. Flynn

God is running the universe. We ought not think like scientists, but think like psalmists.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.

— Mike Huckabee

I just think that we ought to protect the Social Security fund.

— John McCain

Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

— Dwight L. Moody

Before you organize you ought to analyze and see what the elements of the business are.

— Gerard Swope

I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.

— Anthony Trollope

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

— Jack Valenti

The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be…

— George Muller

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as…

— C. S. Lewis

In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes,…

— David Hume

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity…

— Arthur Helps

[On Senator Jesse Helms] I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if…

— Nina Totenberg

The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we…

— Paul Wellstone

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and…

— George Eliot

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in…

— John Adams

In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought…

— John Ruskin

Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of…

— Alexander Hamilton

If the anti-Christian agenda will say, 'Here's your identity, you're an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want…

— Kirk Cameron

Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We recognize a tree by its fruit, and we ought to be able to recognize a Christian by his action. The fruit…

— Ignatius of Antioch

I'm pretty good at inventing phrases - you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you'd…

— Aldous Huxley

Oregon is demure and lovely, and it ought to play a little hard to get. And I think you'll be just as…

— Tom McCall

We all agree that neither the Government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally true that religious…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

We and you ought not to pull on the ends of a rope which you have tied the knots of war. Because…

— Nikita Khrushchev

“Neither in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there…

— Socrates

I typically don't use the distinction 'positive' and 'negative' liberty, because negative sounds bad and positive sounds good, and I don't think…

— Randy Barnett

It's kind of like sentencing. A lot of people say that we have a heavy sentence for this crime and a light…

— Rush Limbaugh

The whole life of Christians ought to be an exercise of piety, since they are called to sanctification. It is the office…

— John Calvin

We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally…

— Michel de Montaigne

The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the…

— Pope Leo XIII