Anti war Quote by Daniel Webster

Who will show me any Constitutional injunction which makes it the duty of the American people to surrender everything valuable in life, and even…

— Daniel Webster

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian…

— Roger Nash Baldwin

“You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders”

— Woodrow Wilson

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

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 if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of…

— George Washington

If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the…

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— Ben Salmon

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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