Am Quote by Laurence Housman

I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.

— Lawrence Wright

“By far the easiest grounds for gaining conscientious objector status in wartime are religious. You can be a brilliant moral philosopher with a prize-winning…

— Richard Dawkins

I wouldn't choose conscientious objector and I wouldn't go to Canada. I did what Hap did and almost went to prison. I think the…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

— Norman Schwarzkopf

I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.

— Pierre Cardin

As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely…

— Pete Townshend

When I volunteered for the draft as a 20-year-old, mischievous guy at the height of the Vietnam War, most thought I was destined to…

— Dan Pena

The Air Force pinned a medal on me for killing a man and discharged me for making love to one.

— Leonard Matlovich

I wanted to apprentice myself to the dailiness of the war's beginning phase. It's truer and more frightening that way - when you're afloat…

— Nicholson Baker

They said I could be anything so I became a soldier.

— Logan Hurst

Every time I have gone to war..I went in as if I was already dead..in order to come out of it alive!

— JG

I would have been a disastrous soldier.

— Max Hastings