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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. Pope John Paul II
Freedom Ought Consists Having Like Doing Right
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. Martin Luther King, Jr.
You Reality Whatever Ought I Can Structure Directly Indirectly Never Until Affects Interrelated
The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking. Will Rogers
Prayer Rest Party Ought Way Carrying See Clear Opened Bless Without Lord Been His His Way Get Convention Republican Republican Party Then Us Asking Even
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
You Try Will Half Meet Ought Back Danger Run Threatened Promptly Never Without Reduce Anything Turn Double Away
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. Douglas MacArthur
Veterans Day You Words Honor Will Three Country Duty Ought Those Hallowed Dictate
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. St. Jerome
Friendship True Friendship Ought Never Conceal True Thinks
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. Marcus Aurelius
Good Thinking Honey Others Ought Runs Borne Horse Bears Simply Without Makes Bee After Grapes Season Vine
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. John Locke
Life Health Liberty Ought Possessions Independent No-One Equal Another His Being Mankind Harm
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics Good Rights People Citizen Free National Every Heritage Ought Our Would Free People Part-Time Protect Privileges Fruitful Who Profession Preserve
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. John Adams
Government Freedom Man Trust Liberty Men Free Power Living Ought Danger Free Government Only Endanger Maxim Public
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Edmund Burke
Me Justice Legal Humanity Lawyer Ought Tell Tells May Reason
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. Thomas Jefferson
Government Will Free Ought Press No-One Without Where Ever
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. Socrates
Man Injustice Evil Ought Him Return However Account Any Much Who Injured Suffered Injury Right
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. Thomas Aquinas
Man Three Believe Ought He Know Salvation Things Necessary Desire
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
Forgiveness Saying Will Ought Way Torn Only Never Like Another Another Way Up Forget Cancelled Forgive Burned Cannot Against Note Shown Two
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. Abraham Lincoln
Struggle Cause Believe Ought Deter Fail Support May Probability Just Us
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Forgiveness Great Angry Soul Enemies Manly Nothing Believe Think Ought Our Those Noble Clearly Clemency Readiness Praiseworthy Forgive Listen Us Who Shows Let Us
I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet. Benjamin Franklin
Truth Experience World Will Defense Ought Philosophical Apt Entered Temper Disturb Take Never Wrong Support Opinions Leave Sour Quiet Any Controversy Them Right Disputes Rejected Chance
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. Charles Darwin
Thoughts Culture Control Stage Ought Our Recognize Possible Moral Highest
If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Treat Will Become Ought Could Individual He Were Your
Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. Milton Friedman
Freedom People Free Argument Group Ought Market Indeed Objection Free Economy Gives Free Market Instead Major Particular Economy Most Underlying Source Itself Precisely Lack Want Against Belief Thinks
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. Niccolo Machiavelli
You Man Men Ought Destroyed Unable Feared Take Retaliate Merely Vengeance Offend Greatly Done Cannot Either Them Injure Injury Utterly
A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years. Saint Ambrose
Love God Good Youth Fear Honor Parents Humility Despise Ought Give Purity He Forbearance His Years Subject Elders Modesty Should Youthful Ornament Preserve
The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance. Paul Washer
Wisdom Woman Words Luxury Beauty Ought Herself Types Extravagance Way Carries Promote Dresses Following She Refinement Discretion Sensuality Modesty Elegance
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. Saint Augustine
Duty Ought Our Because Praise Doing Deserve
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Power Ought Rule Observed Majority Republic Predominant Should
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