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  1.  @dynamite2925  In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people. ~ James Madison, Speech before Constitutional Convention (6/29/1787). “The army...is a dangerous instrument to play with.” George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, April 4, 1783 “A standing army is one of the greatest mischiefs that can possibly happen.” James Madison, Debates, Virginia Convention, 1787 “Standing armies are dangerous to liberty.” Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers, 1787 “None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army.” Thomas Jefferson, Letter to unknown recipient, February 25, 1803 “Always remember that an armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics—that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.” James Madison, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1809 “Our Union is not held together by standing armies, or by any ties, other than the positive interests and powerful attractions of its parts toward each other.” James Monroe, Message to Congress, May 4, 1822 “I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights, providing clearly, and without the aid of sophism, for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction of monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury, in all matters of fact triable by the law of the land, and not by the laws of nations.” Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787
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