We Ought Quotes

549 We Ought quotes by 387 unique authors

[I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on temporary, but on… — Alexander Hamilton
All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper. The people are the government.… — Ronald Reagan
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought… — Rebecca West
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity:… — Thomas Paine
As a product of history and faith, Jewish Americans have helped to open our eyes to injustice, to people in need, and to the simple… — Barack Obama
Let there be no doubt. Alien technology harvested from the infamous saucer crash in Roswell, N.Mex., in July 1947 led directly to the development of… — Philip J. Corso
Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with… — William James
The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that we… — Duke Ellington
We never find what we set out hearts on. We ought to be glad of that. — George MacKay
We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home — Ingvar Kamprad
It is important for us ... to cultivate in our own family a sense that we belong together eternally, that whatever changes outside our home,… — Spencer W. Kimball
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping… — William James
Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own… — Ann Radcliffe
Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and… — William James
It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect. — Sherwood Anderson
We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness. — Mike Huckabee
It's kind of like sentencing. A lot of people say that we have a heavy sentence for this crime and a light sentence for another… — Rush Limbaugh
We are met today in a general conference. Sometimes, I hear, the people feel, some of them, that perhaps we are not quite as "peppy"… — J. Reuben Clark
A psychologist once asked a group of college students to jot down, in thirty seconds, the initials of the people they disliked. Some of the… — James Keller
It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do. — Agnes Repplier
We must remember to teach our children that even if others fail to be kind and considerate, we ought to be slow to condemn and… — Theodore M. Burton
There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since… — William Penn
I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God… — Dwight L. Moody
There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God, commit it to… — William Wilberforce
Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel. - John Churton Collins… — William Magee

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