Awards and Decorations of The United States Government - Selective Service System

Famous quotes containing the words selective, service and/or system:

“The selective memory isn’t selective enough.”
—Blake Morrison (b. 1950)

“The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship.”
—Caroline Nichols Churchill (1833–?)

“While the system of holding people in hostage is as old as the oldest war, a fresher note is introduced when a tyrannic state is at war with its own subjects and may hold any citizen in hostage with no law to restrain it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)