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Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.