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:
“In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“I’m not a military man, Captain. War holds no romance for me. The side effects are repulsive.”
—Richard Bluel, and Henry Hathaway. Major Hugh Tarkington (Clinton Greyn)
“His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it. The antique arm whined as he reached for another mug. It was a Russian military prosthesis, a seven-function force-feedback manipulator, cased in grubby pink plastic.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)