Military
- William Ward (Texas) (died 1836), American Lieutenant-Colonel during the Texas Revolution
- William E. Ward (born 1950), American general officer of the United States Army; inaugural combatant commander of United States Africa Command
- William H. Ward (1840–1927), American army officer and Medal of Honor recipient
- William Thomas Ward (1808–1878), American army general and congressman from Kentucky
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“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)
“In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valour, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)