Military
- Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Arran (1639–1686), 1st Earl of Arran, marshal of the army in Ireland, lord deputy of Ireland
- Richard Butler (general) (1743–1791), American Revolutionary War General, later killed fighting Native Americans in Ohio
- Richard Butler (British Army officer) (1870–1935), British Army General, served in World War I
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“I’m not a military man, Captain. War holds no romance for me. The side effects are repulsive.”
—Richard Bluel, and Henry Hathaway. Major Hugh Tarkington (Clinton Greyn)
“We’re in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
“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)