Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Volunteer

Quotes about: Volunteer

• I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Country, Thinking, Years

  Guest of Honor Speech at the 29th World Science Fiction Convention, Seattle, Washington, 1961.

• Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out. Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature--a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Children, Men

• My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Volunteer, Important

• If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Country, People, Volunteer

  Honor Speech at the 29th World Science Fiction Convention, Seattle, Washington, 1961.

• When the citizens of a nation will no longer volunteer to defend it, then it is probably not worth saving. No nation has the right to survive with conscript troops, and in the long run, no nation ever has.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Long, Volunteer

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