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:
“The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.”
—Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)
“There was somewhat military in his nature, not to be subdued, always manly and able, but rarely tender, as if he did not feel himself except in opposition. He wanted a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, I may say required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)