Military
- James Williams (Revolutionary War) (1740–1780), U.S. Revolution, Colonel from South Carolina
- James A. Williams (born 1932), U.S. Army Lieutenant General and former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency
- James E. Williams (1930–1999), Medal of Honor in the U.S. Navy
- James L. Williams, Commanding General of the 4th Marine Division
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
““My ancestors were all famous for military genius.”
My Lady smiled graciously. “It often runs in families,” she remarked: “just as a love for pastry does.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valour, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)