Conscription Quote by William Lyon Mackenzie King Download Open image “Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.” — William Lyon Mackenzie King ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conscription
A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful. — Ben Salmon Copy Share Image
Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every possible effort should be made to stop recruiting for the Armed Forces. This may, and probably would, lead to some form of conscription… — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
They talk about conscription as a democratic institution. Yes; so is a cemetary. — Meyer London Copy Share Image
If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent. — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to. — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk,… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier. — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance. — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today. — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
“Universal peace-time conscription was adopted by almost all countries as the basis of their military system. This ensured that wars would grow bigger in… — Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore.… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
The worship of the nation has been able to make men tolerate under its authority what they could never have tolerated from princes: a… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there is an uncoerced and direct… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian… — Roger Nash Baldwin Copy Share Image
What higher property do you have than your own person? I totally agree, by the way, with John Locke's idea that one's body is… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die. The was the "war to end wars." This was the "war… — Smedley D. Butler Copy Share Image
