Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
Winston Churchill

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
William Shakespeare

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Abraham Lincoln

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

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
Abraham Lincoln

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known.
Confucius

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Confucius

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin Franklin

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
Mother Teresa

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou

You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin Franklin