"Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription." — William Lyon Mackenzie King
"Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription."
More Conscription Quotes
- Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions… — Gough Whitlam
- Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act… — Bayard Rustin
- The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and… — B. H. Liddell Hart
- Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but… — Mancur Olson
- I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom,… — Roger Nash Baldwin
- Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and… — Phillip Noyce
- I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war… — Albert Einstein
- Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we… — James Ellis
- In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so… — Alexis de Tocqueville
- Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced… — Ron Paul
- I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them.… — Robert A. Heinlein