The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.
Armies are not only for offensives.
When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.
If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.
A military presence does not need to be used to be useful.
There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.
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