Should Quotes

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

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.

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.