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)
“The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.”
—Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)
“Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No—we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)