Quotes from former US Democratic Senator Henry M. Jackson
Monday, July 10th, 2006
“I believe that international terrorism is a modern form of warfare against liberal democracies. I believe that the ultimate but seldom stated goal of these terrorists is to destroy the very fabric of democracy. I believe that it is both wrong and foolhardy for any democratic state to consider international terrorism to be ’someone else’s’ problem…. Liberal democracies must acknowledge that international terrorism is a ‘collective problem.’”
“I’m not a hawk or a dove. I just don’t want my country to be a pigeon.”
“If you believe in the cause of freedom, then proclaim it, live it and protect it, for humanity’s future depends on it.”
“The richest country in the world can afford whatever it needs for defense.” (1960, campaigning for Kennedy)
“We all want to put the brakes on the arms race…we all want to achieve arms control…but to those who say we must take risks for peace by cutting the meat from our military muscle, I say you are unwittingly risking war.”
After all, freedom isn’t free, who among you is willing to defend it?