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If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Happy, Care

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein

Problems, Solve, Geniuses

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein

War, Cannot, Prepare

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou

Travel, Laugh, May

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
C. S. Lewis

Struggle, Same, Cannot

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor Roosevelt

Human, Rather, Act

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
George Washington

Experience, Enemy, After

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Benjamin Franklin

Bad, Break, Habits

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
Samuel Adams

United, Shall, Keeping

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
Aristotle

Getting, Desire, Beginning

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel

Time, May, Times

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
Wayne Dyer

Good, Lies, Beyond

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.
Polly Toynbee

Pain, Depression, Enough

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
Barack Obama

Society, Cannot, Again

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
John Wooden

Life, Living, Making

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
Ray Bradbury

Future, Try, Describe

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Deep, Feeling, Cannot

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Anne Frank

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.
Jan Schakowsky

Help, Control, Cannot

'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.
Hillary Clinton

Power, Smart, Help

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.
Rick Danko

Time, Bad, Greed

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Aldous Huxley

Life, Thinking, Effort

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
Victor Hugo

Against, Boat, Reaction

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Often, Loved, Ourselves

My business is to prevent the future.
Ray Bradbury

Business, Future

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Crime, Encourages

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Power, Forbid, Lacks

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
Lysander Spooner

Government, Another, Whether

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Done, Try, Often

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
T. S. Eliot

Time, Poetry, Help

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