Mythlee’s Reviews > Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times > Status Update

Elbridge Gerry "opposed, for example, the power to raise a standing army, which he famously compared to an erect penis: 'An excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.'"

"Jay shrugged off the controversy [over Jay's Treaty] with his characteristic humor. He joked that he could find his way across the entire country by following the light of his burning effigies."