standing army

Above all, he was amazed to hear me talk of a mercenary standing army in the midst of peace and among a free people.

From such evils, it was said, no country could be secure which was cursed with a standing army.

But before the Revolution our ancestors had known a standing army only as an instrument of lawless power.

The parliamentary conflict on the great question of a standing army was preceded by a literary conflict.

He declared therefore that he abhorred the thought of a standing army.