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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
Lord Acton
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Josh Billings
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
Niccolo Machiavelli
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson
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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
Lord Acton 
95% of people like this quote
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill
90% of people like this quote
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Josh Billings
89% of people like this quote
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
Niccolo Machiavelli
84% of people like this quote
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson
84% of people like this quote
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher
83% of people like this quote
If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.
Ann Coulter
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No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.
George Boole
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