Quotes by Tommy Franks

• The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.
• Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero.
• If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
• If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.
• I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America.
• America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago.
• As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.