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TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 2020

To practice freedom is to tolerate mistakes, not in the sense of inviting or cultivating error, but as one of the prices to be paid in the endless search for improved ways and means toward meeting man's rising expectations.
 
Paul L. Poirot, The Freeman [February 1966]

HORNBERGER'S BLOG

June 2, 2020
Trump and His Standing Army
President Trump’s warning to state governors that he is prepared to send his military forces to quell violent protests in cities across the land serves as another reminder of why our ancestors had such a deep antipathy toward standing armies. They knew that giant, professional, and permanent military establishments constitute the biggest threat to the freedom and well-being of the citizenry.
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