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Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.
William Lyon Mackenzie King / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
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I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system.
A. Philip Randolph / American Political Leader
Black And White
Conscription
Crow
Jim Crow
Pledge
Aid
Counsel
Jim
Openly
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Because conscription appeals to essentially no one, the United States has lived with the All-Volunteer Force since the end of the Vietnam War.
Jacob Weisberg / Journalist
Appeals
Conscription
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Essentially
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I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.
Roger Nash Baldwin / Pacifist
Christian
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Contradiction
Democratic
Ideals
Individual
Individual Freedom
Liberty
Regard
Teaching
Cherished
Principle
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Government acquisition of food supplies in time of war is no less important than conscription. Equity is the fundamental principle applicable to both these essential phases of war administration.
Chiang Kai-Shek / Former President Of The Republic Of China
Acquisition
Administration
Conscription
Equity
Phases
Supplies
Applicable
War Time Government
Essential
Fundamental
Fundamental Principle
Principle
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I think that many of the issues they were facing in South Africa were the same as those I was singing about. Conscription, resisting the draft, government repression - I mentioned all those things in my songs.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Government
Conscription
Repression
Resisting
Singing
South Africa
Africa
Draft
Facing
Mentioned
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Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions.
Phillip Noyce / Film Director
Australia
Changed
Conscription
Forever
Generations
My Generation
Vietnam
Questions
Particularly
Fought
Generation
Obviously
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Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
Ron Paul / Former U.s. Representative
Death
Men
Bizarre
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Injury
Liberty
Risk
Serious
Servitude
Most
Free
Cause
Conceived
Ever
Forced
Justifying
Makes
No Sense
Notions
Price
Promote
Sense
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I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
Bayard Rustin / Activist
War
Conscription
Issues
Military
Military Training
Segregation
Training
Apart
Entirely
Hold
Issue
Opponent
Politic
Preparations
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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. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.
Chrissie Hynde / Musician
Acting
Baseball
Caps
Children
Conscription
Responsibility
Shorts
Anymore
Guys
Wearing
Nose
Punch
Winds
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Once conscription was introduced during the First World War, and once Britain's wars ceased being confined to the empire or to continental Europe and began seriously threatening our own shores and safety, it became much easier to denounce any anti-war agitation and argument as inherently irresponsible and unpatriotic.
Linda Colley / Historian
Agitation
Anti War
Argument
Confined
Conscription
Continental
First World War
Irresponsible
Safety
Threatening
Unpatriotic
War World Europe
Denounce
Empire
First World
Inherently
Introduced
Shores
World War
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I believe that if the entire voting population of the United States could be taken in small groups on a personally conducted tour of even the neutral countries of Europe, 85 percent of them would vote next November for any presidential candidate of any party who could convincingly promise them a big navy and conscription.
Elmer Davis / Author
Conscription
Europe
Groups
Navy
November
Party
Percent
Population
Presidential
Promise
States
Taken
United States
Vote
Voting
Neutral
Candidate
Countries
Entire
Small
Personally
Tour
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