America: Freedom to Fascism - William Lyon MacKenzie King - Roger Baldwin - Ron Paul - Burton Kendell Wheeler - B H Liddell Hart -
Executive Order #11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision. America: Freedom to Fascism, 2006
Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription. William Lyon MacKenzie King
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
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
Peacetime conscription is the greatest step toward regimentation and militarism ever undertaken by the Congress of the United States. Burton Kendall Wheeler
The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, has been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs have shackled their people after a coup d’état, and bound them to their own aggressive purposes. In view of the great service that conscription has rendered to tyranny and war, it is fundamentally shortsighted for any liberty-loving and peace-desiring peoples to maintain it as an imagined safeguard, lest they become the victims of the monster they have helped to preserve. B H Liddell Hart, The Revolution in Warfare