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The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document! — Frederick Douglass
In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried. — Thomas Jefferson
Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway… — Felix Frankfurter
The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for… — Thomas B. Macaulay
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to… — Thomas B. Macaulay
A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married. — Kin Hubbard
The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most… — James Madison
...the statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to be stated that… — Frederic Bastiat
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create… — Josiah Stamp
The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of… — George Washington
Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to… — Thomas Paine
There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is. — Meister Eckhart
Faced with the widespread destruction of the environment, people everywhere are coming to understand that we cannot continue to use the goods of the earth… — Pope John Paul II
It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more than… — Lewis Thomas
All knowledge resolves itself into probability. ... In every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we ought always to… — David Hume
One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values… — Jacques Monod
"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact that… — Sigmund Freud
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the study… — Charles Sanders Peirce
To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I… — Mark Twain
The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to discard… — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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