James Montgomery Flagg Quotes

It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

To enable our country to organize more effectively its military resources in the present great struggle for the cause of civilization, I have, acting on the advice of my Ministers, deemed it necessary to enroll every able-bodied man between the ages of eighteen and forty-one

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.

Your King and Country need you.

Congress have a right by the Constitution to raise regular armies, and no restraint is imposed on the exercise of it …. It would be absurd to suppose that Congress could not carry this power into effect otherwise than be accepting the voluntary service of individuals.

Remember that everybody signed up as fast as they could in World War I because they thought the war would be over by Christmas.

Are you willing to serve in the United States armed forces of the United States and serve wherever assigned …. Forswear any allegiance or obedience to Japan or the Japanese Emperor?

With no draft, the only people who went to war were those who wanted to, or at least those who wanted to join the military.

I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.

I did not want to avoid service. I did realize reservists could be called up, and that it was something that I wanted to do.

I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it.

You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

The volunteer system must be replaced … Let us not be blind to the realities … The day we could put guns into the hands of citizen soldiers, teach the manual of arms and send them to match their spirit and brawn against an enemy has passed.

Possession by an American citizen of the rights and privileges that constitute citizenship imposes correlative obligations, of which the most indispensable may well be "to take his place in the ranks of the army of his country and risk the chance of being shot down in its defense.

Nobody wants to go to war, but the burden of service cannot fall only on volunteers who, are attracted to the military for financial reasons.

Shall This Continue? Join the Navy.

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’.

All able bodied male citizens … are hereby declared to be the National Forces.

I was going to be a Marine before I was going to be an actor. I was really serious about joining the Marine Corps.

Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.

I received my Greetings from Uncle Sam in May 1943. I applied for the Air Force.

Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.

Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.