Should Quotes

Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings.

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.

At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.