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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… — Gough Whitlam
- Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the… — 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… — 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… — Mancur Olson
- 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
- Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there.… — Phillip Noyce
- I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I… — 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… — James Ellis
- 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
- Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with… — Ron Paul