Military
- John Burke (colonel) (1838–1914), officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War
- John Burke (spy) (1830–1871), Confederate spy in the American Civil War
- John Roland Burke (1944–1967), USMC sniper who received the Navy Cross for his actions during the Vietnam War
- John Óge Burke, Irish gentleman and soldier, executed in 1601
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it. The antique arm whined as he reached for another mug. It was a Russian military prosthesis, a seven-function force-feedback manipulator, cased in grubby pink plastic.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“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)