Military
- Edward H. Smith (sailor), United States Coast Guard admiral, oceanographer and Arctic explorer
- Edward Smith (VC) (1898–1940), English recipient of the Victoria Cross during the First World War
- Edwin P. Smith, U.S. general, commander of Army, Pacific 1998–2002
- Edwin Smith (Medal of Honor) (1841–?), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
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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)
“The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“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)