Military
- Robert Anderson (Revolutionary War) (1741–1813), Revolutionary general and Lt. Governor of South Carolina
- Robert Anderson (Civil War) (1805–1871), Union commander at Fort Sumter at the start of the American Civil War
- Robert Houston Anderson (1835–1888), Confederate officer (brigadier general) in the American Civil War
- Robert Anderson (Medal of Honor) (1843–1900), U.S. Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
- Robert Anderson (general) (1865–1940), Australian World War I brigadier general
- Robert Anderson (World War II) (1918–1993), Navy Cross recipient
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)
“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)
“I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)