Christian Quote by Roger Nash Baldwin

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk…

— Ron Paul

Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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

“In our society, where conscription no longer exists, very few people have any conception of what it is like to be a serviceman or…

— Ian R. Gardiner

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

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

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

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

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

— Ben Salmon

“In 1870, came the victory of the short-service troops of Prussia over the long-service troops of France, where conscription had but recently been reintroduced…

— B.H. Liddell Hart