| "The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all." »Kingman Brewster, Jr. |
| "Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale." »Brock Chisholm |
| "You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." »Albert Einstein |
| "Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute." »Nathaniel Emmons |
| "Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them." »Albert Einstein |
| "He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow." »Tryon Edwards |
| "Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed." »Epicurus |
| "So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination." »John Haldane |
| "But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way." »Jane Austen |
| "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant." »John Stuart Mill |
| "We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens." »Brooks Atkinson |
| "Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it." »Anne Elizabeth O'Hare McCormick |
| "I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French." »Charles De Gaulle |
| "Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger." »Francis Quarles |
| "That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms..." »Samuel Adams |
| "I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came." »Jefferson Davis |
| "Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. ... The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role." »William Torrey Harris |
| "To surpress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress...Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love." »Wendell Willkie |
| "No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time--but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming." »Charles E. Wilson |
| "The factory of the future will have two employees a man and a dog. The man's job will be to feed the dog. The dog's job will be to prevent the man from touching any of the automated equipment." »Warren Bennis |
| "It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin." »Katharine Butler Hathaway |
| "Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls." »Anthony Hope |
| "All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships." »George Bernard Shaw |
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