Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
Elizabeth I

I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
Victoria Adams

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
R. D. Laing

Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like... now!
Merle Haggard

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

If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it.
Steve Forbes

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
William Hazlitt

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
Henry Ellis

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

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Saul Bellow

'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.
Howard Stern

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
B. C. Forbes

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
Don DeLillo

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Those who own the country ought to govern it.
John Jay

Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.
Sam Houston

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
Barbara Jordan

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Orson Scott Card