The Enemies Of Public Liberty

"Of all the enemies of public liberty,
war is perhaps the most to be dreaded,
because it comprises and develops
the germ of every other war.
war is the parent of armies!
from these proceed debts and taxes.
and armies, debts and taxes are the known Instruments
for bringing the many under the dominion of the few.
no nation could preserve its freedom
in the midst of continual warfare."


(James Madison, the principal architect of the U.S. Constitution 1795)