Nathaniel LeMaster

If there was one person who had the best handle of the constitution of the United States, it was James Madison. 200 years ago he said this:
“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.”

On the other hand, I am still going to get a post about Alaska up sometime, hopefully this evening! ☺