Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling reasons, if through anonymous traitors any honest citizen may be exiled or banished without a hearing, without a trial?
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.
It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
When I walk into a video arcade filled with 16- or 17-year-old boys, I may as well be Marilyn Monroe.
Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
I may be French, but I'm playing for Arsenal.
By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.
The Aegis Ashore sites in Poland and Romania are designed to counter long-range ballistic missiles that may be launched from other nations, outside of the Euro-Atlantic area, against our European NATO partners.
Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.
Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
