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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mstdn.social/users/jackcole/statuses/115322174011523588">jackcole (jackcole@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Oct-2025 00:27:02 JST</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/@jackcole" title="jackcole@mstdn.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/76827-48-20231209193858.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="jackcole" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">jackcole</a></section><article><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Military" rel="tag">#Military</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Democracy" rel="tag">#Democracy</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/5725869#notice-11235380">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-10-06T00:27:02+09:00" title="Monday, 06-Oct-2025 00:27:02 JST">about 8 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mstdn.social/@jackcole/115322174011523588" rel="external" title="Sent from mstdn.social via ActivityPub">mstdn.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mstdn.social/@jackcole/115322174011523588">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/5299856">A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people. It is perhaps questionable, whether the best concerted system of absolute power in Europe could maintain itself, in a situation, where no alarms of external danger could tame the people to the domestic yoke.
-James Madison, Debates of the Constitutional Convention, Friday, June 29, 1787</a></label><br><a href="https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/322/171/509/125/913/original/d2f559fdef36f4ae.jpeg" rel="external">https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/322/171/509/125/913/original/d2f559fdef36f4ae.jpeg</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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1. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people. It is perhaps questionable, whether the best concerted system of absolute power in Europe could maintain itself, in a situation, where no alarms of external danger could tame the people to the domestic yoke. -James Madison, Debates of the Constitutional Convention, Friday, June 29, 1787
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