Permit

"If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe."

"Don't permit your emotions to overpower your self-respect."

"There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results."

"Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country."