Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
I don't think the U.S. military is conservative. It's pragmatic.
There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness.
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
The military is faithful to the constitution. They will come in only to protect the people from the enemies of the state.
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.