Best Standing Army Quotes
- None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important. — Thomas Jefferson
- Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America… — Noah Webster
- What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments… — Elbridge Gerry
- Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. — James Madison