Military Recruitment Quotes

I want the OSS to recruit young men of disciplined daring who are calculatingly reckless.

The MAVNI program allows citizenship to be granted to any enlistee who serves one day of wartime service.

You ought to be made to fight. We need regiments of such men as you.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

Neither negroes, boys unable to bear arms, nor old men unfit to endure the fatigues of the campaign, are to be enlisted

Men do not take good iron to make nails or good men to make soldiers.

In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of the people of the United States that I doubt whether they would ever dare to introduce it into their law.

There's a tendency to look at anybody who joined the military as if they underwrote everything that happened policy-wise. That's not really the case. I have a friend who both protested the Iraq War and joined the military, and ended up serving two deployments in Afghanistan.

I was honestly willing to accept compulsory military service, provided that the voluntary system had first been tried out, and had failed to supply the men needed and who could still be spared from industry, and were numerically worth troubling about.

On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.

Every predecessor has used mercenaries, often drawn from the country that they're attacking like England ran India with Indian mercenaries. You take them from one place and send them to kill people in the other place. That's the standard way to run imperial wars.

I don't think any man or woman should have to tell his entire history in order to enlist in the military.

About 3,000 have taken that oath. I am now endeavoring two regiments, one of white people called the Queen’s Own Loyal Virginia Regiment and the other of Negroes called Lord Dunsmore’s Ethiopian Regiment.

Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.

One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service.

It is not believed that a force of more than 400,000 can be secured or maintained by voluntary enlistments. An increase beyond that number would necessitate the simultaneous enactment of a selective service act.

To Arms! To Arms! 100 Men Needed.

So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.

It is fundamentally wrong—and cowardly—in a democratic society to claim that those who stand between us and a potential enemy should be risking their lives simply because they are ‘following the marketplace’ and the military is their ‘best deal’.

No state, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.

My mom was the poster girl for the Marines. So she was in the poster saying, "I want you." My parents were both Marines.

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers.

Get jailed, jump bail, join the Army if you fail.

An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.