Police and Military
- John Williams Wilson (1798–1857), English sailor
- John Wilson (Royal Navy officer) (1834–1885), British admiral
- John Moulder Wilson (1837–1919), Union Army engineer
- John Wilson (Captain) (1851–1899), Swedish sailor
- Jock Wilson (John Nicholson "Jock" Wilson, 1903–2008), Scottish soldier and centenarian
- Jock Wilson (police officer) (1922–1993), British police officer
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Famous quotes containing the words police and/or military:
“Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a couple of Irishmen have a private sparring- match on one of them, as it is a government monopoly; all the great seaports are in a boxing attitude, and you must sail prudently between two tiers of stony knuckles before you come to feel the warmth of their breasts.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)