If we really are at war, let us perhaps have pity upon our doomed enemies. But after what we suffered on September 11, if we are not at war, then we should have pity upon ourselves for what we have become."
--Victor Davis Hanson
"If we are serious about this war on terrorism, Congress ought not only to declare war, but warn that any terrorist caught in the U.S. on a mission of massacre will go before a military tribunal and be put to death quickly and in secret...."
--Pat Buchanan
"War is an act of destruction, not urban renewal. We need to steel ourselves to that truth now, or we might find that partway into the battle, even as we remain under catastrophic threat, we lack the stomach to see it through."
--Charles Krauthammer
"It's important that government protect its citizens. But that shouldn't be a pretext for growing government." --Kenneth L. Connor
"American society is a kind of marriage with the law, and infidelity always exacts a price."
--PaulGreenberg
"You're not paranoid if you think people are persecuting you when they actually are. When you begin to imagine reactions based on fear, that's a disproportionate reaction. And that's exactly what the terrorists are counting on -- a disproportionate reaction."
--Suzanne Fields
"Civilization has faced 'the evil ones' before. Intelligent, resolute action against them has always triumphed."
--R. Emmett Tyrrell
"America could use some confidence-building measures right now."
--Cal Thomas |