[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 117 (Tuesday, September 11, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H5501]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    AMERICA HAS A HISTORIC ROLE TO UPHOLD AND DEFEND FREEDOM'S LIGHT

  (Mr. MARKEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, yesterday America walked through the eye of 
terror's perfect storm. Thousands of American families were hideously 
drafted into a war that they only dimly perceived. But today we emerge 
from the ashes of hate and horror, of evil, reminded that America has a 
historical mission in the world to uphold freedom's light and defend it 
against every and all attempts to snuff it out.
  The great American, William Lloyd Garrison, once said, ``With 
reasonable men I will reason, with humane men I will plead; but to 
tyrants, I will show no quarter, nor waste my arguments.''
  Today, Congress and the President and the American people are saying 
to the world, ``With reasonable men we will reason, with humane men we 
will plead, but to agents of modern terror, we will not waste our 
arguments, because we will show them no quarter.''

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