To: Mulder
"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!"
Robert A Heinlein
Guest of Honor Speech at the XIXth World Science Fiction Convention, Seattle, 1961
sums it up for me.
16 posted on
02/14/2003 12:22:08 PM PST by
Kozak
To: Kozak
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!" Thanks for the quote.. I agree with what he said.
87 posted on
02/14/2003 2:46:51 PM PST by
Mulder
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