The Citizen Force was the name of the general military reserve force of several British Commonwealth countries.
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Famous quotes containing the words citizen and/or force:
“In a period of a people’s life that bears the designation “transitional,” the task of a thinking individual, of a sincere citizen of his country, is to go forward, despite the dirt and difficulty of the path, to go forward without losing from view even for a moment those fundamental ideals on which the entire existence of the society to which he belongs is built.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)
“Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)