Founding Fathers Quotes on Standing Armies and Quartering Troops in the Third Amendment

“No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.” – Amendment III, The U.S. Constitution

“The army...is a dangerous instrument to play with.” – George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, April 4, 1783

“A standing army is one of the greatest mischiefs that can possibly happen.” – James Madison, Debates, Virginia Convention, 1787

“Standing armies are dangerous to liberty.” – Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers, 1787

“None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army.” – Thomas Jefferson, Letter to unknown recipient, February 25, 1803

“Always remember that an armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics—that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.” – James Madison, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1809

“Our Union is not held together by standing armies, or by any ties, other than the positive interests and powerful attractions of its parts toward each other.” – James Monroe, Message to Congress, May 4, 1822

“I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights, providing clearly, and without the aid of sophism, for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction of monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury, in all matters of fact triable by the law of the land, and not by the laws of nations.” – Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787

The Biden administration is dismantling the military. Obama purged approximately 200 generals from the military during his first five years in office.

Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely back in 2013 did an interview with Investor’s Business Daily and said that Obama was “intentionally weakening and gutting our military, Pentagon and reducing us as a superpower, and anyone in the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged.”

Link: AMERICAN OPPOSITION TO STANDING ARMIES

Many of the newly formed states’ bills of rights contained articles dealing with the problems of standing armies, militias, and the right to possess arms. Virginia’s Bill of Rights contained all of these issues in one article reading “that a well‐regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural and safe defence of a free state; that standing armies, in times of peace, should be avoided, as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases military power should be under strict subordination to, and governed by the civil power.” Both the Federalists and Anti‐Federalists agreed that citizen militias were the guarantors of liberty. The concept of militias as an essential institution to the flourishing of liberty was a widely held belief during the revolutionary period.

American colonists viewed themselves as a free nation surrounded by a world filled with despotic kings. According to George Mason, “North America is the only great nursery of freemen now left upon the face of the earth.” According to the Founders, Europe was dominated by kings and nobles who had disarmed their people. By depriving them of self‐defence, despots could easily oppress them and strip them of their liberties through the domination of standing armies. Josiah Quincy believed professional standing armies made “wicked ministers more audacious.” For Quincy, a paid soldier was but a “slave among freemen” who had no reason to protect the rights of any but their master

The military did nothing while the Chinese stole this country. That is their new legacy.

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Clinton’s big part of this . Politicians count on Military to be last line of defense for them and semi knowing other countries won’t try what the Japanese did with a direct assault

China got real smart and bought / infiltrated their way in and have successfully removed the one obstacle in their way Trump

The freebie/ touchy freely voters don’t realize all of this as the MSM was expose and buried the. Biden scandal and the hoax of Mueller and the basis for impeachments

Our rules weak against them.

Yup. The commies are using the rules of street fight total warfare and we're still citing Marquess of Queensberry rules and going tsk tsk.

Of course it doesn't help that satanface soros cleverly positioned commie DAs all over the country so that lefties can get off scot free from murdering us, while we go to jail for talking to someone at a political rally.

This must be how Jews felt in Germany circa October, 1938. If you thought last summer was bad, wait until they unleash the full pogrom on us this summer.

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