Conscription Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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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
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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
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Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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They talk about conscription as a democratic institution. Yes; so is a cemetary.
— Meyer London
Who Wrote These Conscription Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 18 Conscription Quotes as follows: