Military
- John Stewart (of Livingstone) (died 1726), Scottish officer and Member of Parliament for Kirkcudbright Stewartry (UK Parliament constituency)
- John Stewart (died 1796), Scottish officer in the Dutch Army and Member of Parliament for Anstruther Burghs
- John Donald Hamill Stewart (1845–1884), British Army officer, aide to General Gordon at Khartoum
- John Stewart of Ardvorlich, British Army officer and historian
- John Roy Stewart (1700–1752), officer in the Jacobite army of 1745 and poet
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“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)
“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)