Military
- John Burke (colonel) (1838–1914), officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War
- John Burke (spy) (1830–1871), Confederate spy in the American Civil War
- John Roland Burke (1944–1967), USMC sniper who received the Navy Cross for his actions during the Vietnam War
- John Óge Burke, Irish gentleman and soldier, executed in 1601
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“Were in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
“In all sincerity, we offer to the loved ones of all innocent victims over the past 25 years, abject and true remorse. No words of ours will compensate for the intolerable suffering they have undergone during the conflict.”
—Combined Loyalist Military Command. New York Times, p. A12 (October 14, l994)
“[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 (16721729)