Act Quote by Bayard Rustin

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

— Bayard Rustin

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

War is hell. Sending young people to conflicts that are unwinnable and unresolvable - it puts them in a position where they're going to…

— Mary Gauthier

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

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

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.

— Nellie L. McClung