The Case for Compulsory Military ServiceMacmillan and Company, limited, 1917 - 378 pages |
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actual Appendix argument assert ballot Britain British called cent century citizens civil classes Colonel command compelled compulsion compulsory principle Compulsory Service compulsory system Compulsory Territorialism conscription continental democracy democratic despotism discipline Draft drill Dussieux duty efficiency Empire England English enlist experience fact favour fight force foreign Fortescue France freedom French army fyrd German Government Harold Cox home defence ignorance J. R. Seeley Jaurès Jean Jaurès king Labour less levy liberty Lord Haldane Lord Roberts ment military service military training militia mobilization modern moral Napoleon Nation in Arms national defence National Service League Navy never numbers officers organization Pauly-Wissowa peace political population present proportion Prussian pulsory question quoted reason recruiting Regulars Roman serious Sir Ian Hamilton Socialist soldiers Stoffel Swiss army Swiss system Switzerland things tion Universal Service victory Voluntarism voluntarist voluntary system volunteer Westminster Gazette whole words writes
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Page 45 - He taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms as other nations do, but with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me, according to my age and strength: as I increased in them, so my bows were made bigger and bigger: for men shall never Shoot well, except they be brought up in it. It is a goodly Art, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in Physic.
Page 156 - ... is called a revolution ; whereupon somebody else, with or without legitimate authority from the nation, vaults into the seat, issues his orders to the bureaucracy, and everything goes on much as it did before; the bureaucracy being unchanged, and nobody else being capable of taking their place. A very different spectacle is exhibited among a people accustomed to transact their own business. In France, a large part of the people having been engaged in military service, many of whom have held at...
Page 189 - This conduct consists, first, in not injuring the interests of one another; or rather certain interests, which, either by express legal provision or by tacit understanding, ought to be considered as rights; and secondly, in each person's bearing his share (to be fixed on some equitable principle) of the labors and sacrifices incurred for defending the society or its members from injury and molestation.
Page 162 - That spirit, besides, would necessarily diminish very much the dangers to liberty, whether real or imaginary, which are commonly apprehended from a standing army. As it would very much facilitate the operations of that army against a foreign invader, so it would obstruct them as much if, unfortunately, they should ever be directed against the constitution of the state.
Page 82 - But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you.
Page 85 - Prussian discipline is to reduce them, in many respects, to the nature of machines; that they may have no volition of their own, but be actuated solely by that of their officers; that they may have such a superlative dread of...
Page 222 - The majority of eighteen- to nineteen-year-old regular recruits enlist because they have just ceased to be boys and are unable to find regular employment as men. About four-fifths of them come to us because they cannot get a job at fifteen shillings a week.
Page 28 - It must have been because the Empire could not furnish soldiers for its own defence, that it was driven to the strange expedient of turning its enemies and plunderers into its defenders. Yet on these scarcely disguised enemies it came to depend so exclusively that in the end the Western Empire was destroyed, not by the hostile army, but by its own.
Page 138 - This produces an army which will soon turn upon our now victorious soldiers already in the field, if they shall not be sustained by recruits, as they should be. It produces an army with a rapidity not to be matched on our side, if we first waste time to re-experiment with the volunteer system, already deemed "by Congress, and palpably, in fact, so far exhausted as to be inadequate, and then more time to obtain a Court decision as to whether a law is constitutional which requires a part of those not...