Because young men subject to the draft had provided such a reservoir of antiwar opinion during the Vietnam era, proponents (of a renewed draft) seemed to calculate that reviving the eligibility of their sons today would make almost any armed conflict politically impossible… Adding their daughters to the mixture would create even greater havoc with […]
Draft Quotes
Peacetime conscription is the greatest step toward regimentation and militarism ever undertaken by the Congress of the United States.
Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
Hell no, we won’t go!
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people. (“Hair”)
A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.
No state has an inherent right to survive through conscript troops and in the long run no state ever has. Roman matrons used to say to their sons: “Come back with your shield, or on it.” Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome.
In the beginning of our government we were willing to introduce the least coercion possible on the will of the citizen. Hence a system of military duty was established too indulgent to his indolence. This (War of 1812) is the first opportunity we have had of trying it, and it has completely failed; an issue […]
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.
People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent… War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today.
