Military
- Charles Aitchison Smith (1871–1940), Indian Army officer and administrator
- Charles Bean Smith, later Sir Charles Euan-Smith (1842–1910), British soldier and diplomat
- Charles Douglass Smith (c. 1761–1855), British army officer and colonial administrator
- Charles Ferguson Smith (1807–1862), Union General of the American Civil War
- Charles Hamilton Smith (1776–1859), British artist, soldier and spy
- Charles H. Smith (Medal of Honor) (1826–1898), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
- Charles Henry Smith (Medal of Honor) (1827–1902), American Civil War officer and Medal of Honor recipient
- Charles Kingsford Smith (1897–1935), Australian aviator in WWI and afterwards
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“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)
“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)
“We’re in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)