[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 22 (Thursday, March 3, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 3, 1994]
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 A PLEDGE TO FIGHT CRIME BY RENDERING JUSTICE AND GUARANTEEING LIBERTY

  (Mr. COLLINS of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, we have just rendered a pledge 
to our flag and the Republic for which it stands.
  Mr. Speaker, a republic is people. People working equally as one 
nation.
  Under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
  Yes, under God we have united and have been granted a government, to 
protect the liberty and render justice for all.
  We protect our liberty through faith, patriotism, and a strong 
defense. Would be aggressors fear our strength and respect our values.
  However, the aggressor we fear most walks among us, dividing us from 
within--the criminal.
  We must make the criminal as fearful of violating our liberty as any 
aggressor we have faced.
  Mr. Speaker, only justice will render such fear.
  We as dutiful officers of the Republic must harness the criminal 
element through justice.
  Justice will only prevail when we as a Congress swallow our thirst 
for power and assist our local and State governments in stopping the 
criminal threat to our liberty.

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