Conscription Quotes

18 quotes by 16 authors

Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions to regular soldiers. We will… — Gough Whitlam
Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth… — Bayard Rustin
Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs have shackled their… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a pacifist.… — Mancur Olson
I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching. — Roger Nash Baldwin
Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came… — Phillip Noyce
I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as… — Albert Einstein
Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits — Napoleon Bonaparte
Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his… — James Ellis
In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of… — Ron Paul
I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I… — Robert A. Heinlein
War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the… — Bayard Rustin
I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue,… — Bayard Rustin
The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be… — Laurence Housman
Government acquisition of food supplies in time of war is no less important than conscription. Equity is the fundamental principle applicable to both these essential… — Chiang Kai-shek
They talk about conscription as a democratic institution. Yes; so is a cemetary. — Meyer London

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