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:
“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)
“The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)
“Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)