It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.

If they are going to have war, they ought to take the old men and leave the young to propagate the race.

Larry King and his producers ought to go back to school and learn what 'fair and balanced' really means.

We ought to make sure that people coming here ought to be vetted and that we secure this federal border.

But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature.

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.

The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

Having already had one glorious marriage, perhaps I ought to count myself lucky and stop while I'm ahead.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.

We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it.

To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do.

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.

To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.

God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy.

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion

Every minister knows it's harder to get the guys to church than the women. We ought to be asking why this is.

I don't think you ought to walk into this country one day, and the first stop you make is the welfare office.

When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.

I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care.

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