The expense which attends it, the obvious tendency to employ it because it exists and thus to engage in unnecessary wars, and its ultimate danger to public liberty will lead us, I trust, to place our principal dependence for protection upon the great body of the citizens of the Republic.
Jackson expresses concerns about the costs and risks associated with a large military force, advocating for citizen-based defense.
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