Quote by Meyer London

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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

With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope that at…

— Colin Powell

A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the…

— Daniel Webster

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

The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs have shackled…

— Anonymous

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

— George Washington

... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were…

— James Madison

This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and…

— Grover Norquist

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

— Ben Salmon

I would agree that much with people who accept private property - that conscription is an unpardonable transgression, whether it be "corrupt" or not.…

— Murray Bookchin