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There are two systems of policy with regard
to the military: the old English, and the modern
French: each in its day may have had its reason and
its use. The one is to cause threat them as f enemies keeping them under
and make kept them under, by making them odious to the people: the other
is to gain their win them over and consider make them as one with
the people. The latter I must own is that
which I prefer. But the old English black-letter
policy is growing out of date. I wish we were
well rid of it. The French if one may venture
to say as much, seems the broader-bottomed,
the more generous and more enlightened of the
two: the more suited to modern reason situations and to
modern times. The old English black-letter
policy is growing out ord of date: I wish we it is time
we were were well rid of it. Cunning tyrants at seeing
this oversight burn on the part of the friends of liberty
laugh in their sleeve: they see them during their
work: by setting the people against the military,
they are setting the military against them. Divide
et conquer is one of the one of the first lessons in the spelling-book
of tyrants. Those who decried the Act
planting
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