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Ought Quotes by Edmund Burke
- It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
- To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
- The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do,…
- All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they…
- There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country,…
- "War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He…
- No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
- Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue;…
- No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.
- It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they…
- Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian…
- Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents…
- Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
- A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and…
- They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.
More Ought Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs. — John Ashcroft
- The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. — Margaret Atwood
- Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. — Saint Augustine
- We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears… — Marcus Aurelius
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are… — Jane Austen
- If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought… — Teresa of Avila
- If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to… — Teresa of Avila
- It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he… — Charles Babbage
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it… — Francis Bacon