The king, the nobility, the priesthood, the _army_, and above all, the navy.

All this machinery lessens the number of productive, and increases the number of unproductive hands in the nation.
The United States had already advanced full far enough in this system.
In addition to the civil list, they had funded a debt on the principles of duration, had raised an army at an immense expense, and now a proposition was made for a navy.
The system of governing by debts, was the most refined system of tyranny.

It seemed to be a contrivance devised by politicians to succeed the old system of feudal tenures.

Both were tyrannical, but the objects of their tyranny were different.

The one operated on the person, the other operates on the pockets of the individual.