Best sacred & ought Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.”

Ought Equal Institutions Sacred Unions Protection Equal Protection

Author:James McGreevey

“...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe on the authority of those to whom the revelation has been made. Nor does this take away from the dignity of this doctrine, for although the argument from authority based on human reason is the weakest, yet the argument from authority based on divine revelation is the strongest.”

Source: The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition

“That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.”

Men Ought Sacred Property Ancient Trials Suits Controversy Jury Trial By Jury

Author:George Mason

“Sacred interpreter of human thought, How few respect or use thee as they ought! But all shall give account of every wrong, Who dare dishonor or defile the tongue; Who prostitute it in the cause of vice, Or sell their glory at a market-price!”

Giving Humans Use Causes Ought Glory Accounts Sacred Sells Vices Dare Tongue Thee Interpreter Dishonor Human Thought

Book:The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson

Source: The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson

“It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property.... But if the productive activity of the multitude can be stimulated by the hope of acquiring some property... , it will gradually come to pass that, with the difference between extreme wealth and extreme penury removed, one class will become the neighbor to the other.”

Ifs Wisdom Law Differences Wealth Numbers Class Principles Ought Activity Mass Sacred Property Population Extremes Neighbor Favors Productive Multitudes Private Property

Author:Pope Leo XIII

“We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge. ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke.”

Mind Ideas Able Night Knowledge Morning Psychology Fronts Humility Ought Sacred Busy Definitions Cycles Division Cosmology Totality Liver Synthesis Specialization Flukes Archeology

Author:Maureen Duffy

“even the best of constitutions need sometimes to be amended and improved, for after all there is but one constitution which is infallible, but one constitution that ought to be held sacred, and that is the human constitution.”

Needs Humans Sometimes Ought Constitution Sacred Womens Rights Infallible

Book:Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

“Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any other citizen. It is both a public and a private duty to protect those rights. The Congress ought to exercise all its powers of prevention and punishment against the hideous crime of lynching, of which the negroes are by no means the sole sufferers, but for which they furnish a majority of the victims.”

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Author:Calvin Coolidge

“If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“As far as sacred Scripture is concerned, however much froward men try to gnaw at it, nevertheless it clearly is crammed with thoughts that could not be humanly conceived. Let each of the prophets be looked into: none will be found who does not far exceed human measure. Consequently, those for whom prophetic doctrine is tasteless ought to be thought of as lacking taste buds.”

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Book:John Calvin: Selections from His Writings

Source: John Calvin: Selections from His Writings

“For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but he warns us against the commission of those beings which are esteemed lawful among men....Therefore, with regard to this precept of God, there ought to be no exception at all, but that it is always unlawful to put to death a man, whom God willed to be a sacred animal.”

Men Law Animal Violence Ought Regard Sacred Gods Will Exception Unlawful

Author:Lactantius

“Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.”

Art Hard Fire Hard Work Wall Ought Art Is Sacred Crafts

Book:But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop, and Other Writings

Source: But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop, and Other Writings

“Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name upon every trifling occasion . . . . To prevent this profanation, such passages are selected from scripture, as contain some important precepts of morality and religion, in which that sacred name is seldom mentioned. Let sacred things be appropriated to sacred purposes.”

“Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of the fundamental laws, though dictated by necessity, impairs that sacred reverence which ought to be maintained in the breast of rulers towards the constitution of a country.”

Knows Country Government Law Break Wise Ought Politician Constitution Fundamentals Sacred Breasts Reverence Rulers Restriction Cautious Be Cautious

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men. We...solemnly publish and declare, that these colonies are and of a right ought to be free and independent states...and for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson, His Words and Vision

“Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.”

Ought Sacred Response Federalist Oracles Federalist Papers Unequivocal

Book:The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States

Source: The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States

“For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.”

Self Reason Given Known Ought Authority Sacred Scripture Evident Sacred Scripture Occam's Razor

Author:William of Ockham

“Whoever is willing to enter the magic path should regard it as his sacred duty to practice regular exercises. He ought to be kind, generous and tolerant with his fellow men, but relentless and hard with himself. Only such behavior will be followed by success in magic.”