Military
- James Williams (Revolutionary War) (1740–1780), U.S. Revolution, Colonel from South Carolina
- James A. Williams (born 1932), U.S. Army Lieutenant General and former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency
- James E. Williams (1930–1999), Medal of Honor in the U.S. Navy
- James L. Williams, Commanding General of the 4th Marine Division
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“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)
“In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“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)