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:

    “The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look, begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)