Here are a couple quotes I cribbed from "Quote A Day" (QAD) of 5 Oct 2004. I think they bear repeating.

1.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -- James Madison, while a Congressman.

2
Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation when he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose --and you allow him to war at pleasure.

If today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us' but he will say to you 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't.' -- Abraham Lincoln.

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Substitute the name of any other country that seems appropriate.