Definition of Conscription

Conscription

An enrolling or registering.

A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft.

Belonging to, or of the nature of, a conspiration.

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Conscription Quotations

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

Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted.
Laurence Housman

Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions.
Phillip Noyce

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

They talk about conscription as a democratic institution. Yes; so is a cemetary.
Meyer London

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Conscription Translations

conscription in German is Aushebung {f}
conscription in Spanish is alistamiento

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