I regard myself as Left of Centre which … is where a Party Leader ought to be … It is no use asking, “ What would Keir Hardie have done ?” We must have at the top men brought up in the present age, not, as I was, in the Victorian Age .’

We have no power over external things, and the good that ought to be the object of our earnest pursuit, is to be found only within ourselves.

We ought not to forget the transitory character of all external advantages, even in the midst of our enjoyment of them ; but always to bear in mind that they are not our own, and that therefore they do not properly belong to us.

We can have no certain knowledge of morality from them, being incapable of deducing how things ought to be from the fact that they happen to be arranged in a particular manner in experience.

We ought to work together.

" We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly enlarged, and the love of each one of you toward one another grows ever greater ; therefore, we ourselves speak proudly of you among the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in the midst of all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure " ( 2 Thess 1: 3-5 ).

Plotinus writes, " We ought not even to say that he will see, but he will be that which he sees, if indeed it is possible any longer to distinguish between seer and seen, and not boldly to affirm that the two are one.

On 6 January 1762, he wrote to Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein, " We ought now to think of preserving for my nephew, by way of negotiation, whatever fragments of my territory we can save from the avidity of my enemies ", which means, if words mean anything, that he was resolved to seek a soldier's death on the first opportunity.

Though he had read Virgil, considered the greatest Latin stylist, he cautions us that " We ought not to relate their lying fables, lest we fall under sentence of eternal death.

Coats has described himself as a conservative who stands for “ limited government, lower taxes, a balanced budget, strong defense .” Coats said, " We need to get the economy back on track ... that ought to be our priority and not the huge spending going on in Washington "

The 25 December Nativity of Christ was attested very early by Hippolytus of Rome ( 170 – 236 ) in his Commentary on Daniel 4: 23: “ The first coming of our Lord, that in the flesh, in which he was born at Bethlehem, took place eight days before the calends of January, a Wednesday, in the forty-second year of the reign of Augustus, 5500 years from Adam .” Another early source is Theophilus Bishop of Caesarea ( 115-181 ):" We ought to celebrate the birth-day of our Lord on what day soever the 25th of December shall happen.

Maitland says that, “ We ought not to think of common law & equity as of two rival systems.

" ( p. 224 ) The battle between uniformitarianism and catastrophism kept the Flood alive in the emerging discipline, until Adam Sedgwick, the president of the Geological Society, publicly recanted his previous support in his 1831 presidential address: We ought indeed to have paused before we first adopted the diluvian theory, and referred all our old superficial gravel to the action of the Mosaic Flood.

In 1792, she continued this theme of national responsibility in an anti-war sermon entitled Sins of Government, Sins of the Nation which argued that each individual is responsible for the actions of the nation: " We are called upon to repent of national sins, because we can help them, and because we ought to help them.

" A chorus line dressed in frilled yellow dresses, recruits a volunteer army with " We don't want to lose you, but we think you ought to go ".

We recognized that he was not only an unusually gifted man, but that he had the indefinable something that marks the man who has worked seriously upon himself ... Knowing Reggie to be a very cautious man, trained moreover in assessing information by many years in the Intelligence Service, I accepted his assurances and also his belief that Shah had a very important mission in the West that we ought to help him to accomplish.

We ought to act only by maxims that would harmonize with a possible kingdom of ends.

: We have left undone those things which we ought to have done ;

" We will make informal friendly noises as soon as we can find out whom to talk with, and ought to recognize as soon as we ’ re sure these guys are firmly in the saddle.

Patriotic music hall compositions like Keep the Home Fires Burning ( 1914 ), Pack up Your Troubles ( 1915 ), It's a Long Way to Tipperary ( 1914 ) and We Don't Want to Lose You ( but we think you ought to Go ), were sung by music hall audiences, and sometimes by soldiers in the trenches.

It is our Christian conviction that abortion performed for personal reasons to insure individual convenience ought not to be permitted ./ We call on all who counsel those with problem pregnancies, especially youth workers, campus pastors and staff members of our church colleges, to uphold the Christian alternatives to abortion ./ We call on our churches to expand their efforts to support agencies providing a ministry of mercy to those seeking alternatives to abortion ./ We call on our members to support efforts for constitutional changes to provide legal protection for the unborn.

" We ought to love people and use things ; the essence of immorality is to love things and use people.

We veterans acknowledge the fact that as time passes the demand for medical care at VA hospitals will grow proportionately as age fosters illness.

Officials of the Presbyterian Church USA report: " We acknowledge the role of scriptural authority in the Presbyterian Church, but Presbyterians generally do not believe in biblical inerrancy.

Robert B. Parker's 2001 novel Potshot borrows heavily from the end of the movie for the final confrontation between Spenser's group of seven outlaws and the Dell, the antagonists of the story, going so far as to acknowledge it in dialog between characters and having one of them say the line, " We deal in lead, friend.

In April 1796, George wrote to Caroline, " We have unfortunately been oblig'd to acknowledge to each other that we cannot find happiness in our union.

Barnett also gives the text of a document from 1769 in the records of the Gilead Lutheran Church " When it had pleased the Almighty and Merciful God in His goodness to plant the Evangelical Lutheran Church in this American part of the world also, and especially in the State of New York, during the reign of Queen Anna, and also in this neighborhood and district called Hosek Road, in Rensselaerwyck, Albany County, then more than twenty years ago, a small body of adherents of the above said Lutheran church, disposed to that end did build and erect a prayer and church House to the Honor of God, and for their convenience, upon that lot of ground which our most worthy Patroon generously gave to promote and perpetuate the service of God and for the better maintenance of our preacher, for which purpose he presented us with a Deed of Gift which We acknowledge with heartfelt thanks towards our Good Lord in Heaven, and that in addition He grants us all hereabouts by His grace that we through the permission of the Government are allowed to carry on our pure Lutheran Church service free and without hindrance.

In a speech to his constituents on 10 October Fox said: " We have not, I acknowledge, obtained the objects for which the War was undertaken — so much the better — I rejoice that we have not.

We cannot but, with all thankfulness, acknowledge the success which the merciful God has given unto the sedulous and assiduous endeavours of our honourable rulers, to detect the abominable witchcrafts which have been committed in the country, humbly praying, that the discovery of those mysterious and mischievous wickednesses may be perfected.

: We acknowledge to You, O Lord, that You are our God, as You were the God of our ancestors, forever and ever.

Rabbi David Rosen, the AJC ’ s international director of Interreligious Affairs stated: " We acknowledge that the Church ’ s liturgy is an internal Catholic matter and this motu proprio from Pope Benedict XVI is based on the permission given by John Paul II in 1988 and thus, on principle, is nothing new ".

We acknowledge and encourage respect for other life forms than our own and the preservation of biodiversity.

We ought to acknowledge intellectual property of indigenous knowledge including language, music and dance.

We would welcome an agreement that would increase economic opportunity, protect our shared environment, guarantee workers ' rights and acknowledge the role of human mobility in deepening the already profound ties between our countries.

We will not revive these ideals if we fail to acknowledge the challenge that the renewal of history presents.

When Amundsen returned from his South Pole conquest in 1912 he paid full tribute to Borchgrevink's pioneering work: " We must acknowledge that in ascending the Barrier, Borchgrevink opened the way to the south and threw aside the greatest obstacle to the expeditions that followed ".

" Jeffrey P. Dennis, author of " The Same Thing We Do Every Night: Signifying Same-Sex Desire in Television Cartoons ," argued that the romantic connection between Velma and Daphne Blake is " mostly wishful thinking " because Velma and Daphne " barely acknowledge each other's existence.

Commenting on the Silver Star issue, Republican Sen. John Warner, who was Under Secretary of the Navy at the time, stated " We did extraordinary, careful checking on that type of medal, a very high one, when it goes through the secretary ... I'd stand by the process that awarded that medal, and I think we best acknowledge that his heroism did gain that recognition.

* Archie Goodwin ( Epic ): " We acknowledge our mistakes in print, but Epic Comics doesn't award No-Prizes.

“ We need deep reporting and real understanding, but we also need reporters to acknowledge all that they don ’ t know, and not try to mask that shortcoming behind a gloss of attitude, or drown it in a roar of oversimplified assertions ,” he points out.

Following court pressure Obozrevatel issued an official apology stating: “ The editorial hereby admits that there was unchecked and false information about Rinat Akhmetov present in the … articles … We hereby give our apologies to Rinat Akhmetov for the problems resulted from the above-mentioned publications .” The journalist, who has political ambitions, refused to issue an apology or acknowledge any wrongdoing.

We acknowledge the constraints that software puts on the musician, the limits that the tool sets for the creative process and we therefore promote and try to disseminate technologies which open up the limits of the software ( or defines new boundaries ).

The recipient being summoned forward by his rank and name, and given the insignia while being told: Nous vous reconnaissons comme notre Compagnon pour la libération de la France dans l ’ honneur et par la Victoire (“ We acknowledge you as our companion for the Liberation of France, in honour and by Victory ”).

Steffen summed up what he sees as the benefit of this approach in an essay called The Politics of Optimism in which he wrote, " We can freely acknowledge the tremendous struggle ahead of us, and yet choose to remain decidedly optimistic, and to work from a fundamental belief in the possibilities of the future.

We can certainly honour and acknowledge them in our prayer life, but we do not look to them for help or to answer our prayers.

In March 2012, Camping admitted that his predictions were in error, stating: " We humbly acknowledge we were wrong about the timing.