Military Enrollment Quotes

One of the things that's difficult for people to understand is when you join the military, you don't sign up as an endorsement of any particular policy of the moment.

Any Roman citizen may join the Army.

Congress has consistently rejected policies that aim to allow illegal aliens to serve in the military.

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.

You dare not—at least I hope you dare not—attempt a conscription to fill the ranks of your regular army.

I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

I'd lived through World War II and hadn't been able to wait to join the army as soon as I turned 18.

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 believe in national service, where you can join AmeriCorps or the military.

I decided to join the military to give back to my country and help pay for college.

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

Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.

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 went into the military because I wanted to get an education, not because I wanted to fight anybody.

I made a naive decision, and I joined the Navy. I figured I would use the G.I. Bill to pay for any college I wanted. I dreamed of going to Julliard to study music and acting.

Pennsylvania is soon to participate in a profoundly solemn and historic departure from precedent when, for the first time in our Republic, there will be registration for peace-time conscription on Wednesday, October 16th, between the hours of 7 A. M. and 9 P. M. This date, designated as Registration Day by authority of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, and set by the President's Proclamation… is one of the most significant days in the annals of our Commonwealth and our Nation. All male persons in the United States, with the few exceptions which already have been made clear, who have attained the twenty-first anniversary of the day of their birth and who have not attained the thirty-sixth anniversary of the day of their birth, are required to present themselves and submit to registration for compulsory military service. Never before has America, through the Congress of the United States, found it necessary to take such a step. The impact and consequences of Registration Day make it an historic event to all of our people. Every family is affected. All means available must be used to apprise everyone everywhere of what must be done to complete the registration properly, accurately and fully.

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

Upon graduation from high school, following my brother by a couple of years, I joined the U.S. Air Force.

Does the absence of the word “male” before “citizen” in the law that allowed us to enlist sailors, mean that we could enlist women?

Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?