#prevent

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

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This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

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Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. ↗

— Maimonides

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The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence. ↗

— Michael Medved

#coming #even #existence #existing #flourishing

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts. ↗

— Lord Melbourne

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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

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The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil. ↗

— James Monroe

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It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe. ↗

— Luc Montagnier

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Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

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