seventies – The Haps With Herb

This Is Not The Villanelle I Promised You – But It Is A Poem With An Introduction That Turned Into A Post

September 25, 2020 Herb 15

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22147 – 719: I think I have a structure for the newer poem lined out but it’s not even close to done yet. But here’s a piece from before Continue Reading[...]

"...but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.'' Hamilton Fed Paper #29