Military Officers
- John Baird (revolutionary) (1790–1820), Scottish commander in the "Radical War" of 1820
- John Baird (Royal Navy officer) (1832–1908), Victorian British Admiral
- John Baird (educator) (1795–1858), Irish-born British Army instructor
- John Baird (RAF officer), British physician and retired Royal Air Force medical officer
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“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)
“In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)