Ought Quote by Steve Forbes Download Open image “If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it.” — Steve Forbes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ought Pledge
Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When we make a pledge, we mean it. We keep our word, and what we begin, we will finish. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“to make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always clanking and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Let's do more than say the 'Pledge of Allegiance.' Let us live it! — Emanuel Cleaver Copy Share Image
In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness? — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
With respect to the pledge I made that if you like your plan you can keep it. The way I put that forward unequivocally… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The rigidity of those pledges is something I don’t like. The circumstances change and you can’t be wedded to some formula by Grover Norquist.… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence, the words that launched our nation -- 1,300 words. The Bible, the word of God -- 773,000 words. The Tax… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion. — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
The words, 'penalty,' 'restrict' and 'violate' appeared more times in President Clinton's health care reform bill than in his crime bill. — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business -- along with… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
I think the idea of trying to demonize Governor Romney's going to backfire. Their attempts so far have failed pretty outstandingly and I think… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps. — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
Start by scrapping the tax code. Don't fiddle with it. Junk it. Throw it out. Bury it. Replace it with a pro-growth, pro-family tax… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head. — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to… — John Randolph of Roanoke Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
