This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.