Foreign Service

Foreign Service may refer to:

  • Diplomatic service, the body of diplomats and foreign policy officers maintained by the government of a country
  • United States Foreign Service, the diplomatic service of the United States government
  • Indian Foreign Service, the diplomatic service of India
  • Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service, the diplomatic service of the United Kingdom, and specifically the organisation which ran the Foreign Office in London before amalgamation with the Diplomatic Service in 1918

Famous quotes containing the words foreign and/or service:

    “Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores; let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God’s right to come.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”
    —Thomas Paine (1737–1809)