Quote by George Wald Download Open image “A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.” — George Wald ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
I do think if we had a draft again, the United States would embark on fewer wars. — John Densmore Copy Share Image
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort… — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
Too often, U.N. peacekeepers face an impossible task in countries that are still at war and where there is no real peace to keep. — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful. — Ben Salmon Copy Share Image
The draft is a monstrous violation of individual liberty, and even a good motive cannot make it otherwise. In a free society no one… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
To have the United States suddenly come up with a peace proposal after a whole series of terrorist attacks is going to show to… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
One of the problems we currently have is there hasn't been in the population any serious engagement with the ethics of war because we… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation of rights.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Since we replaced the compulsory military draft with an all-volunteer force in 1973, our nation has been making decisions about wars without worry over… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
There's nothing anti-patriotic about wanting peace. There really isn't. — Shavo Odadjian Copy Share Image
Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind. — George Wald Copy Share Image
So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product. — George Wald Copy Share Image
Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on… — George Wald Copy Share Image
I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the… — George Wald Copy Share Image
I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack. — George Wald Copy Share Image
We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen… — George Wald Copy Share Image
There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are… — George Wald Copy Share Image
