I was taking a quick break, so I headed over to The Quotable Heinlein, where the random quote for the day was one I had never heard before. From Heinlein's Guest of Honor Speech at the XIXth World Science Fiction Convention, Seattle, 1961:
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!Posted by Victor at Enero 3, 2005 02:10 PM