Quotes of: Ought Keyword

If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

Jesse Ventura

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.

William McKinley

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

Avicenna

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Immanuel Kant

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Langston Hughes

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

Samuel Richardson

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Plato

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

Phaedrus

As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.

Eric Sevareid

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

E. M. Forster

Every sacrament meeting ought to be a spiritual feast.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Those who own the country ought to govern it.

John Jay

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

James Madison

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Thomas Carlyle

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

William James

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.

William Graham Sumner

Those who work ought to live better than those that don't.

John G. Schmitz

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

Chief Joseph

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