Line #28 Quotes/Conscription


1	->[[http://www.pulpless.com/jneil/wilgus.html Rainbow Cadenza]]'' started out by asking the question if parents who were willing to have their sons drafted to go to war to have their asses shot off would be willing—if the same utilitarian rationale was given—to have their daughters drafted to have their asses banged. If my previous sentence shocks and revolts you, then you'll know how shocking and revolting I find the draft for ''any'' purpose.''
2	-->--'''J. Neil Schulman''', ''1986''
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4	->''I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!''
5	-->-- '''Creator/RobertAHeinlein''', ''1961''
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7	->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.
8	-->--''Literature/TimeEnoughForLove'', "The Notebooks of Lazarus Long"
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10	->"An army cannot be built without reprisals. Masses of men cannot be led to death unless the army command has the death-penalty in its arsenal. So long as those malicious tailless apes that are so proud of their technical achievements—the animals that we call men—will build armies and wage wars, the command will always be obliged to place the soldiers between the possible death in the front and the inevitable one in the rear."
11	-->-- '''UsefulNotes/LeonTrotsky'''
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13	->'''Military examiner:''' Is there a reason why you're keeping your [[IconicOutfit jacket]] on?\
14	'''Fonzie:''' I don't want to get caught in a draft.
15	-->-- ''Series/HappyDays''
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17	->''Some folks are born to wave the flag,\
18	Ooh, they're red, white and blue.
19	And when the band plays "Hail to the chief",\
20	Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord,\
21	It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senator's son, son.\
22	It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, no.''
23	-->-- "Fortunate Son" - '''Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival''' - ''Music/WillyAndThePoorBoys''.
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25	->''"Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription."''
26	-->-- '''Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King''' on the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Conscription Crisis of 1944]].
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28	->''"Got a letter in the mail! 'Go to war or go to jail!'"''
29	-->--Excerpt from a US Army cadence.
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31	->''Professional armies waste material, conscripted armies waste human lives.''
32	-->--'''Sir Basil Liddell Hart'''
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34	->'''Radar:''' Style Right Shoe Company. I read it on the back of a matchbook. It said that you could earn extra money in your spare time selling Hi-Style wing-tip shoes.\
35	'''Major Murphey:''' How did this work?\
36	'''Radar:''' Well, you just filled in your name and address and stuff, and they sent you a demo shoe, a measuring thing and, uh, an order blank.\
37	'''Major Murphey:''' But you're a corporal in the United States Army.\
38	'''Radar:''' Well, that's not my fault sir.
39	-->--''Series/{{Mash}}''
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41	->''Where there's a whip, there's a way!\
42	Where there's a whip, there's a way!\
43	Where there's a whip --\
44	We don't wanna go to war today, \
45	But the lord of the lash says nay, nay, nay!\
46	We're gonna march all day, all day, all day -- \
47	For where there's a whip, there's a way!\
48	Where there's a whip, there's a way!\
49	Where there's a whip, there's a way!\
50	Where there's a whip, there's a way! (Left, right, left, right, left...)\
51	Where there's a whip, there's a way! Left, right!\
52	The crack on the back says we're gonna fight!\
53	We're gonna march all day and night and more,\
54	For we are the slaves of the Dark Lord's war! Left, right, left, right, left, right!''
55	-->'''The Orcs''', ''WesternAnimation/TheReturnOfTheKing'', "[[VillainSong Where There's a Whip, There's a Way]]"
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57	->''"Three months ago, I was cutting grass on my front yard. The mailman shows up with a letter from the army. Now I'm here, and no idea where I'm going to end up."''
58	-->--'''Boyce''', ''Film/Overlord2018''
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60	->'''Dizzy:''' Oh, yeah. My name's Dizzy, and my rig's the little sweet named "Betty."\
61	'''Marcus:''' You a conscript?\
62	'''Dizzy:''' Ain't had no choice once we took Lifeboat insurance! Yep, family got the groceries, while daddy got conscripted. Life's a bitch like that.
63	-->--''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' 2
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65	->''I'm 21, and I'm scared as hell\
66	I quit school, I was healthy as a horse\
67	Because of all that, I'll be the first one to die in a war''
68	-->-- "Train" - '''Music/UncleTupelo'''

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