Prevent

Famous quotes containing the word prevent:

    “We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “...I am an abolitionist for the sake of my own race—Contact with the African degenerates our white race—I find the association with them injurious to my child—keenly as I watch to prevent it & his faithful nurse to help me ... She is a good woman & so are many of them—Still the race is a degraded one ...”
    —Elizabeth Blair Lee (1818–?)

    “We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening.”
    —Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)