Military
- William Wells (general) (1837–1902), U.S. Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient for the Battle of Gettysburg
- William Wells (Medal of Honor) (born 1832), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
- William Wells (soldier) (1770–1812), American army officer and adopted member of the Miami tribe
- William Lewis Wells (1895–1918), World War I flying ace
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“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)
“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)
“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)