standing army
Noun
Meaning
standing army (plural standing armies)
A professional permanent army composed of full-time career soldiers, and not disbanded during times of peace.
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Examples
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.
The centralized state power that is peculiar to bourgeois society came into being in the period of the fall of absolutism. Two institutions are most characteristic of this state machine: bureaucracy and a standing army.
None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.
No man has a greater regard for the military gentlemen than I have. I admire their intrepidity, perseverance, and valour. But when once a standing army is established, in any country, the people lose their liberty.