Ought Quotes

What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.

I think if progressives stay at this, continue at the grassroots level to make the case that all Americans should have choice, all Americans ought to be able to hold insurance companies accountable, I think we will have 60 votes in the United States Senate for a strong bill.

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how they're going to invest their money.

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family.

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.