"A permanent army maintained in time of peace and war."
https://www.wordnik.com/words/standing%20army
"America was founded on the principle of no standing army. Our ancestors knew that a standing army is antithetical to the principles of a free society, a principle that the rebels in Libya and other Middle East countries are now discovering.
But there is another reason that a standing army is dangerous, as Americans have discovered: It can be used by a ruler to involve a nation in endless foreign military escapades, which oftentimes are so expensive that they bring financial bankruptcy down upon a nation"
https://www.fff.org/2011/03/17/constitution-requires-congressional-declaration-war-libya/
"Their revolutionary experience of the founding fathers forged a deep mistrust of standing armies. They viewed them as a pernicious threat to liberty"
https://daytondui.com/founding-fathers-opposed-standing-army/
"For most Americans after the Revolution, a standing army was one of the most dangerous threats to liberty. In thinking about the potential dangers of a standing army, the Founding generation had before them the precedents of Rome and England. In the first case, Julius Caesar marched his provincial army into Rome, overthrowing the power of the Senate, destroying the republic, and laying the foundation of empire. In the second, Oliver Cromwell used the army to abolish Parliament and to rule as dictator."
https://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/articles/1/essays/52/army-clause
"The idea of maintaining a standing army, now an accepted necessity, was hotly debated at the time of the creation of the United States."
https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h2950.html
AMERICANS’ DEEP AND ABIDING SUSPICION OF “STANDING ARMIES” EMBODIED IN “THE MILITIA OF THE SEVERAL STATES”
https://constitutionalmilitia.org/standing-armies/
Founding Fathers Quotes on Standing Armies and Quartering Troops in the Third Amendment
https://ammo.com/articles/founding-fathers-quotes-third-amendment-standing-armies-quartering-troops
Standing Armies: The Constitutional Debate
https://allthingsliberty.com/2018/05/standing-armies-the-anti-federalists-and-federalists-constitutional-debate/