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A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.

— Elbridge Gerry Constitutional Convention (1787)

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The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.

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