Selective Service Act may refer to:
- Selective Service Act of 1917, or Selective Draft Act, enacted May 18, 1917, for the American entry into World War I
- Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, enacted September 16, 1940, in preparation for the American entry into World War II
- Selective Service Act of 1948, enacted June 24, 1948, also known as the:
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- Universal Military Training and Service Act of 1951, as renamed and amended by Pub.L. 82-51, 65 Stat. 75, enacted June 19, 1951
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- Military Selective Service Act of 1967, as renamed and amended by Pub.L. 90-40, 81 Stat. 100, enacted June 30, 1967
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- Military Selective Service Act, as renamed and amended by Pub.L. 92-129, 85 Stat. 348, enacted September 28, 1971
Famous quotes containing the words selective, service and/or act:
“The selective memory isn’t selective enough.”
—Blake Morrison (b. 1950)
“Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.”
—Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274)