Standing V

"Standing armies are the oppressive instruments for governing the people, in the hands of hereditary and arbitrary monarchs. A military republic, a government founded on mock elections and supported only by the sword, is a movement indeed, but a retrograde and disastrous movement, from the regular and old-fashioned monarchical systems."
-Daniel Webster,
Speech, "On The Completion Of The Bunker Hill Monument", June 17, 1843