Famous quotes with Standing army

• Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

  Edward Everett
• What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.

  Elbridge Gerry
• 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
• I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington. I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. I got a very good grade.

  Kurt Vonnegut
• Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

  Edward Everett Hale

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