Military
- John Mitchell (Medal of Honor), American Indian Wars soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, see 5th Infantry Regiment
- John G. Mitchell (general) (1838–1894), American Civil War general
- John K. Mitchell, Confederate Navy commodore during the American Civil War, see USS Alpha (1864)
- John Wesley Mitchell (1891–1969), Australian soldier; see Battle of Vevi
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No—we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“Nothing changes my twenty-six years in the military. I continue to love it and everything it stands for and everything I was able to accomplish in it. To put up a wall against the military because of one regulation would be doing the same thing that the regulation does in terms of negating people.”
—Margarethe Cammermeyer (b. 1942)