Military
- John Stewart (of Livingstone) (died 1726), Scottish officer and Member of Parliament for Kirkcudbright Stewartry (UK Parliament constituency)
- John Stewart (died 1796), Scottish officer in the Dutch Army and Member of Parliament for Anstruther Burghs
- John Donald Hamill Stewart (1845–1884), British Army officer, aide to General Gordon at Khartoum
- John Stewart of Ardvorlich, British Army officer and historian
- John Roy Stewart (1700–1752), officer in the Jacobite army of 1745 and poet
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“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)
“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)
“There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring ‘em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifry.”
—Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)