Top Ought Quotes

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Ought Definition

(n. & adv.) See Aught.

(imp., p. p., or auxi) Was or were under obligation to pay; owed.

(imp., p. p., or auxi) Owned; possessed.

(imp., p. p., or auxi) To be bound in duty or by moral obligation.

(imp., p. p., or auxi) To be necessary, fit, becoming, or expedient; to behoove; -- in this sense formerly sometimes used impersonally or without a subject expressed.

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Whatever ought to be, can be.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.