Robert A. Heinlein Quotes:
Ocupation: Science writer
Life: July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988
Birthday: July 7
Death: May 8
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!
source: Guest of Honor Speech at the 29th World Science Fiction Convention, Seattle, Washington, 1961.
topic: Country, Thinking, Years, Volunteer Service, Conscription
