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This reluctance of busy men to devote their valuable time to an unpaid public service was reasonable enough, and the practice of employing substitutes was winked at by the authorities; yet centuries passed before a way was found to organize with intelligence, and officially recognize a system, that whilst freeing the mass of the people from an unnecessary conscription, should yet retain the [86]essential principle that every man shares in, and cannot divest himself of, a definite responsibility for the maintenance of good order in the commonwealth.
" But Princess Betsy could not endure that tone of his-"sneering," as she called it, using the English word, and like a skillful hostess she at once brought him into a serious conversation on the subject of universal conscription.
Nor does he believe in military conscription in wartime ("[t]he libertarian believes that people will voluntarily defend a country worth defending").
Conscription remains mandatory, but more than 80 percent of young Russians avoid it.
In the post-Soviet chaos, youngsters found more ways to duck conscription, and the quality of the average soldier plummeted.
The army had to crush revolts in Sicily and Naples against heavy taxes and conscription for Spain’s wars in northern Europe.
In 1917 Puerto Ricans won a mixed bag of benefits: they were given more say in their internal affairs, made citizens of the United States - and declared eligible for conscription in World War I.
I think I have somewhere related how Monsieur Michelet said to me of the people of France, that it was "a nation of barbarians civilised by the conscription.
Our masses are quite as raw and uncultivated as the French, and, so far from their having the idea of public duty and of discipline, superior to the individual's self- will, brought to their mind by a universal obligation of military service, such as that of the conscription,-so far from their having this, the very idea of a conscription is so at variance with our English notion of the prime right and blessedness of doing as one likes, that I remember the manager of the Clay Cross works in Derbyshire told me during the Crimean [58] war, when our want of soldiers was much felt and some people were talking of a conscription, that sooner than submit to a conscription the population of that district would flee to the mines, and lead a sort of Robin Hood life under ground.
The brutality of forced conscription ever stood before her eyes: she beheld the young men, often the sole supporter of a large family, brutally dragged to the barracks to lead the miserable life of a soldier.
First, that conscription has created in Europe a deep-seated hatred of militarism among all classes of society.
True, we have no conscription, that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force-necessity.
The conscription comes.
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