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«There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.»
«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.»
Author: Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
(Ambassador, Senator)
| Keywords:
at best, directly, fundamental, III, indirectly, prevent, primary, superfluous, The United Nations, United Nations, world war
«The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.»
«The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.»
Author: Samuel Adams
(Politician)
| About:
Constitution
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citizens, constitution, Constitution of the United, Constitution of the United States, construe, construed, peaceable, People of, prevent, the United States, United States, United States Constitution
«To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.»
«The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed»
«The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Crime and Punishment, dubious, grounded, notion, obviously, prevent, prevented, punishment, sole
«What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows / it must grow; nothing can prevent it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
atom, physical structure, prevent, rigorous, smallest, stand still, structure
«There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Aristocracy
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, artificial, ascendancy, birth, founded, ingredient, mischievous, prevent, provisions, talents, virtue, wealth
«We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any way to prevent 'em from happening»
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