Military
- John Cunningham (RAF officer) (1917–2002), Group Captain, RAF Night fighter Ace
- John Cunningham (VC 1916) (1897–1941), East Yorkshire Regiment
- John Cunningham (VC 1917) (1890–1917), Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment
- John Cunningham (Royal Navy officer) (1885–1962), RN, First Sea Lord
- John Cunningham, 15th Earl of Glencairn (1749–1796), Scottish nobleman, cavalry officer, and priest
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
““My ancestors were all famous for military genius.”
My Lady smiled graciously. “It often runs in families,” she remarked: “just as a love for pastry does.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“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)
“In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)