John Birch may refer to:
- John Birch (soldier) (Colonel) (1615–1691), soldier in the English Civil War and MP for Leominster
- John Birch (MP) (c.1666–1735), nephew of Col. Birch, MP for Weobley (UK Parliament constituency) expelled from the House of Commons
- John Birch (missionary) (1918–1945), or the John Birch Society named for him
- John Birch (luthier) (born 1922)
- John Birch (musician) (1929-2012)
- John Birch (diplomat), former British ambassador to Hungary and former British deputy ambassador to the United Nations
- John Birch (engineer)
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“This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and No.”
—Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–1890)
“The birch stripped of its bark, or the charred stump where a tree has been burned down to be made into a canoe,—these are the only traces of man, a fabulous wild man to us. On either side, the primeval forest stretches away uninterrupted to Canada, or to the “South Sea”; to the white man a drear and howling wilderness, but to the Indian a home, adapted to his nature, and cheerful as the smile of the Great Spirit.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)