National Service Act

The National Service Act may refer to any one of a number of acts enforcing national service or conscription:

  • in the United States
    • Universal National Service Act
    • National Service Act of 2006
  • in Australia
    • National Service Act 1951
    • National Service Act 1964
  • in the UK
    • National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939
    • National Service Act 1948

Famous quotes containing the words national, service and/or act:

    “I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.”
    —Larry Speakes (b. 1939)

    “The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “I am the only actor.
    It is difficult for one woman
    to act out a whole play.
    The play is my life,
    my solo act.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)