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Originally Posted by Machette

That to...and I quote "Overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican liberty" Geroge Washington's Farewell address, september 17, 1796

We didn't listen to a lot of things he said in his farewell address. Such as

"It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world, so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it, for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs that honesty is always the best policy."