Believe Quote by Bayard Rustin

War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on…

— Bayard Rustin

Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.

— Ben Salmon

“In our society, where conscription no longer exists, very few people have any conception of what it is like to be a serviceman or…

— Ian R. Gardiner

A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the…

— Daniel Webster

True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more…

— Emma Goldman

Once conscription was introduced during the First World War, and once Britain's wars ceased being confined to the empire or to continental Europe and…

— Linda Colley

The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs have shackled…

— Anonymous

This actual question of 'Why does God allow war?' is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all.

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Because conscription appeals to essentially no one, the United States has lived with the All-Volunteer Force since the end of the Vietnam War.

— Jacob Weisberg