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I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men. -- Michael Caine
I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity. -- David Hockney
My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Our sons and daughters must be trained in national service, taught to give as well as to receive. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men. -- Eamon de Valera
We have an incredible national forest service, and we have an incredible child outreach program that the president has put together. I don't see anything wrong with national service for a minimum of two years. If we were to require that, we wouldn't need a draft. -- Montel Williams
Israel is in the midst of a difficult military and diplomatic campaign against terrorists. An organisation that works to prove allegations that Israel is committing war crimes should be so good as to do so with its own resources and not with civilian national service volunteers and state funds. -- Uri Orbach
I have never had a problem with national service. I am not sure the draft is the way to go about it, but I am positive that you live in a society and you take from this society, which every citizen here does. You owe something back to this country, and that should be paid back in some form of national service. -- Montel Williams
I returned to India after long years of international service, because I had always cherished the desire to make a difference in my own country. -- Shashi Tharoor
Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now buys private contractors - we used to call them mercenaries - to do the country's fighting. -- Michael Ignatieff
By requiring all 30 million Americans age 18 to 25 to perform two years of national service, in the military or civilian life, we will be asking for a shared sacrifice from all American citizens. -- Charles B. Rangel
I believe in national service, I believe that every young adult citizen should do two years of national service. Not necessarily to be deployed, but to understand teamwork, responsibility and mixing with different people. -- Robert Irvine
I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community. -- Robert M. Gates
We will never privatise the National Health Service. -- Andrew Lansley
I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral. -- Michael W. Smith
Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. -- Buzz Aldrin
You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services. -- Gijs de Vries
Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state's National Guard. -- Ron Wyden
Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests. -- Jill Lepore
I authored the Universal National Service Act because I believe that everyone in America should contribute to the greater good of America. -- Charles B. Rangel
My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service. -- Dan Aykroyd
In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore. -- Samantha Power
More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense. -- Marc Andreessen
The Silent Service is all together too silent. It's important to begin to highlight the critical importance of the Silent Service to our national security. -- Rob Simmons
While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency. -- Mitch McConnell
Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. -- Ayn Rand
Typically, an historic site is considered by the National Park Service to contain a single historical feature, while generally a National Historic Park extends beyond single properties or buildings. -- Rick Renzi
Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion. -- Gary Miller
For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President. -- Karen Hughes
The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service. -- Stewart Udall
NCS - National Citizen Service is a fantastic programme. I want it to be available for every young person in the country. -- David Cameron
The National Park Service shot a mule in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came out of his nose. -- Cleveland Amory
Over the moon about strong support for the National Health Service - an institution I will defend to my dying day, second only to Everton FC. -- Andy Burnham
National Health Insurance means combining the efficiency of the Postal Service with the compassion of the I.R.S. ... and the cost accounting of the Pentagon. -- Louis Sullivan
The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal -- Michael Foot
By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt. -- Thomas Jefferson

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