• None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

    Thomas Jefferson: None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
    Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.167, Algora Publishing