Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let
us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without
which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us
reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance
under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we
countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and
capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions.
-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Behind all the political rhetoric being hurled at us from abroad we are
bringing home one unassailable fact -- [terrorism is] a crime by any civilized
standard, committed against innocent people, away from the scene of political
conflict, and must be dealt with as a crime....