Julian Bream Quotes

I've never been a soldier. In Denmark, at 18, as a male, you go in a draw, and if they pick you, you go and serve for a year. I didn't.

In Iraq and Afghanistan, our soldiers signed up intentionally. That's a huge difference from the largely conscripted army of my era.

At 19, I joined the Air Force during the Vietnam War.

I joined the Rhodesian army in 1975, having trained for six weeks outside Bulawayo.

I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.

The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.

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.

In my day, when I was a young kid, army duty was compulsory in South Africa or you go to jail. I had the choice, so I spent a year in the entertainment unit, and outside of doing shows - and I used to write for, arrange for the big band - outside of doing that, I actually had a rock band in the army.

I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.

New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form.

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.

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll.

I was drafted during the Korean War.

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.

I wanted to leave 'Eight Is Enough' for the Navy.

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

The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.

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.

I've been extremely lucky having been in the army when I was a boy of fourteen.

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.

The war has already become plain for the youth of the land to avoid disease and death in the tropics by refusing to volunteer or to enlist in the army of navy of the United States.

I want you for US Army

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.

There can be no army without men. Men can be had voluntarily or involuntarily. We have ceased to obtain them voluntarily: and to obtain them involuntarily, is the draft—the conscription.

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