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.

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.

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

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.

It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

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

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom democracy and the United States.

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases so far as he is not prevented by force or law.