Armed forces Quote by Stafford Cripps

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

— Ben Salmon

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've never understood why anyone would want to join the army, but that's irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that, as long as…

— John Tiffany

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

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

Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make…

— Anonymous

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

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

— Bill Vaughan

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

It's nonsense that people join the army to serve the country, like the politicians do it only for the sake of the country.

— Sam Manekshaw

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