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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1896
AUTHOR: To Establish Justice, to Insure Domestic Tranquility
QUOTATION: Our most serious challenges to date have been external—the kind this strong and resourceful country could unite against. While serious external dangers remain, the graver threats today are internal: haphazard urbanization, racial discrimination, disfiguring of the environment, unprecedented interdependence, the dislocation of human identity and motivation created by an affluent society—all resulting in a rising tide of individual and group violence.
ATTRIBUTION: To Establish Justice, to Insure Domestic Tranquility, final report of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, p. xxxii (1960).

Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower was chairman of the commission.
SUBJECTS: Violence