Standing Army Quotes
31 quotes by 20 authors
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All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the…
— Adam Carolla
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A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.
— Voltairine de Cleyre
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A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.
— James Madison
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Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.
— Noah Webster
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Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what…
— Aristotle
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A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it,…
— James Madison
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...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at…
— Alexander Hamilton
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He was Caesar and Pope in oÂne; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without…
— Benjamin Smith
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The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful…
— Emma Goldman
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Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against…
— Henry David Thoreau
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This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against…
— Alexander Hamilton
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If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it’s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.
— Ezra Klein
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Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question:…
— George R. R. Martin
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You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be…
— Thomas Jefferson
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You aren’t advertising to a standing army; you are advertising to a moving parade.
— David Ogilvy
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a…
— Woodrow Wilson
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"It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The chief support of an autocracy is a standing army. The chief support of a democracy is an educated people.
— Lotus Coffman
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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
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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
— Vladimir Lenin
Who Wrote These Standing Army Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 31 Standing Army Quotes as follows: