Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

"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

[Thanks to leemoyer for quoting it in February, juxtaposed with another quote.]