Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription. — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Once conscription was introduced during the First World War, and once Britain's wars ceased being confined to the empire or to continental… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there.… — Phillip Noyce Copy Share Image
All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
What higher property do you have than your own person? I totally agree, by the way, with John Locke's idea that one's… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The worship of the nation has been able to make men tolerate under its authority what they could never have tolerated from… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there is an uncoerced… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
“In our society, where conscription no longer exists, very few people have any conception of what it is like to be a… — Ian R. Gardiner Copy Share Image
“Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die. The was the "war to end wars." This was… — Smedley D. Butler Copy Share Image
“The whole South was a military camp. The occupation of the colored people was to furnish supplies for the army. Conscription was… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“In 1870, came the victory of the short-service troops of Prussia over the long-service troops of France, where conscription had but recently… — B.H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
“Universal peace-time conscription was adopted by almost all countries as the basis of their military system. This ensured that wars would grow… — Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Government acquisition of food supplies in time of war is no less important than conscription. Equity is the fundamental principle applicable to… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty… — Roger Nash Baldwin Copy Share Image
In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Because conscription appeals to essentially no one, the United States has lived with the All-Volunteer Force since the end of the Vietnam… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
They talk about conscription as a democratic institution. Yes; so is a cemetary. — Meyer London Copy Share Image
True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful. — Ben Salmon Copy Share Image
Realistically speaking, Ayn Rand should not have opposed the antidraft movement and supported the Vietnam War effort - in effect, she supported… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
Every possible effort should be made to stop recruiting for the Armed Forces. This may, and probably would, lead to some form… — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions to regular… — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
[Ayn] Rand accepts that when she supports military conscription, even indirectly. Also, she starts her politics from the premise that the State… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
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