Military
- William Butler (colonel) (died 1789), American Revolutionary War soldier from Pennsylvania, one of five Butler brothers in the war
- William Butler (1759–1821), American Revolutionary War soldier, 1790s militia general, U.S. Representative from South Carolina
- William Butler (militiaman) (died 1818), U.S. militia captain killed in the Creek War, namesake of Butler County, Alabama
- William Orlando Butler (1791–1880), U.S. soldier in the War of 1812 and Mexican-American War, 1848 Democratic vice-presidential candidate
- Sir William Francis Butler (1838–1910), 19th century British Army lieutenant general and adventurer
- William Boynton Butler (1894–1972), British Army soldier awarded a Victoria Cross
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“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)
“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)