Military
- John B. Alexander (born 1937), retired US Army colonel and leading advocate for the development of non-lethal weapons
- John Alexander (VC) (died 1857), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross
- John Hanks Alexander (1864–1894), African American officer in the United States armed forces
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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)
“The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.”
—Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)
“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)