Ought Quotes

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.

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

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 believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.

If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.

They want the Olympics. We ought to make sure they don't get the Olympics.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.