“There is one thing that ought to be taught in all the colleges,
Which is that people ought to be taught not to go around always making apologies.”

“The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people.”

Grover Cleveland (1837–1908) 22nd and 24th president of the United States

“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.”

Lois Wyse (1926–2007) American advertising executive

“I think the testimony obviously ought to be sworn testimony. And we ought to go all the way into this and take as much time as we can to reassure the American people that this sort of thing’s not going to happen again in the future.”

Mitch McConnell (1942) US Senator from Kentucky, Senate Majority Leader

“There is no divine Truth, and no impure Truth. There is no secular Truth, the Truth taught in the college or the school house is as sacred as Truth taught from the pulpit”

Benjamin Fish Austin (1850–1933) Nineteenth-century Canadian educator/Methodist Minister/Spiritualist

“When translating prose dialogue one ought to make the characters say things that people talking English could conceivably say. One ought to hear them talking, just as a novelist hears his characters talk.”

Arthur Waley (1889–1966) British academic

“For years we have been taught not to like things. Finally somebody said it was OK to like things. This was a great relief. It was getting hard to go around not liking everything.”

David Byrne (1952) Scottish alternative rock musician and promoter of world music

“The story of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land… America is a living testimonial to what free men and women, organized in free democratic trade unions can do to make a better life … we ought to be proud of it!”

Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978) Vice-President of the USA under Lyndon B. Johnson

“In a State or Assemblage of People that live together in a Community, where there are Laws, Liberty can only consist in doing that which every One ought to do, and not to be constrained to do that which One ought not to do.”

Catherine the Great (1729–1796) Empress of Russia

“Only peons made excusses for themselves she taught me. Never apologize, never explain.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander