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“Simply put, international terrorism made international cooperation mandatory rather than elective. Collective security has become the only real security against the hydra-headed monster of international terror.”

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Author:John Ashcroft

“Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.”

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Author:Elliott Abrams

“Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security.”

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Author:William Safire

“There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.”

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Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“By 1938, Eleanor Roosevelt was so angry at FDR's policies, she writes a book called This Troubled World. And it is actually a point-by-point rebuttal of her husband's foreign policy. We need collective security. We need a World Court. We need something like the League of Nations. We need to work together to fight fascism. We need embargoes against aggressor nations, and we need to name aggressor nations. All of which is a direct contradiction of FDR's policies.”

“The current generation of world leaders -- our generation -- is also being called to face significant challenges concerning peace, collective security and the environment. We have been unable to solve old disputes and to prevent new threats. The use of force is incapable of eliminating the underlying causes of conflict.”

“We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.”

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Author:Theodore C. Sorensen

“Do the people of the world not yet realize that by fighting on until the bitter end I am not only performing my sacred duty to my people, but standing guard in the last citadel of collective security? Are they too blind to see that I have my responsibilities to the whole of humanity to face? I must still hold on until my tardy allies appear. And if they never come, then I say prophetically and without bitterness: The West will perish.”