Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the
most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the
germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these
proceed debts and taxes...known instruments for bringing
the many under the domination of the few. . . No nation
could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual
warfare.
--James Madison, Political Observations, 1795
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