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.
- James Madison