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If we really mean that people's votes are to be counted, the timelines ought to exist around what it takes to count every vote.
A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow
The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.
I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.
I think, in this country, if you work 40 hours a week, and you work hard, you ought to be able to afford an apartment somewhere.
Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.
We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
There's no reason why fiscal responsibility is a Democrat or a Republican point of view. It ought to be all of our points of view.
Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.
If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.
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.
Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.
I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will
We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.
I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.
The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.
We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It's time now.
Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples.
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
Prices don't merely reflect what people think things ought to cost today; they also reflect what people expect items to cost tomorrow.
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
I could run for Congress. Why not? Good heavens, if Ronald Reagan can be president, I ought to make a great secretary of the treasury.
Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
In its early days, Trump's presidency ought to be viewed as the arduous start to the complicated task of draining the Washington swamp.
Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.
To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.
Punishment for putting patients at risk ought to reflect the gravity of manufacturing, distributing or selling counterfeit medications.
It's a shame that gays who ought to be pushing boundaries have been domesticated and tamed and turned into pets by the Progressive Left.
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.
Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.
You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things are seldom crystal clear.