Prevent Quotes

The only way to win the next world war is to prevent it.

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

New laws do not pretend to prevent labor disputes, nor do they cover all industry and all labor. But they do constitute an important step toward the achievement of just and peaceable labor relations in industry.

If you travel the earth, you will find it is largely divided into two classes of people-people who say 'I wonder why such and such is not done" and people who say "Now who is going to prevent me from doing that thing?"

I am trying to marshal all the forces I can to prevent this coming war, and to strengthen Britain.

There are two supreme obligations which rest upon a British government. They are of equal importance. One is to strive to prevent a war, and the other is to be ready if war should come.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

We must have though a man who recognizes the slavery issue as being the living issue of the day; who does not hesitate to declare slavery a wrong, nor to deal with it as such; who believes in the power and duty of Congress to prevent the spread of it.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.