Military
- James Murray (admiral), a 16th-century Scottish shipbuilder in the Polish service, counter-admiral during the Battle of Oliwa
- James Wolfe-Murray (1853–1919), British military officer and Chief of the Imperial General Staff in the 1910s
- James Murray (British Army officer) (1721/22–1794), Scottish military officer and governor of Quebec
- James Murray (of Strowan) (1734–1794), Scottish general of the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution
- James Murray (VC) (1859–1942), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross during the First Boer War
- Sir James Pulteney, 7th Baronet (c. 1755–1811), born James Murray, Scottish general and MP for Weycombe and Regis
- James Patrick Murray (MP) (1782–1834), British soldier
- James Lore Murray (1919–2004), USAF Major General responsible for the ejection seat and the B-52 aircraft
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“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)
“Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)