Ought Quotes

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.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there related to Palestine and to Israel that we ought to be trying to deal with. And there's a great deal of targets in the Philippines, Indonesia. You name it, there are a number of places where there are targets that we ought to be trying to deal with.

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

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

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.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.