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:
“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]t is a civil Cowardice to be backward in asserting what you ought to expect, as it is a military Fear to be slow in attacking when it is your Duty.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)
“The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)