Politicians
- John Bailey (MP) (died 1436), MP for Cricklade (UK Parliament constituency) and Calne
- John Bailey (Australian politician) (born 1954), former Australian politician
- John Bailey (Massachusetts) (1786–1835), Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts
- John Bailey (New South Wales politician) (1871–1947), Australian politician
- John Edgar Bailey, Northern Irish politician
- John Moran Bailey (1904–1975), United States politician, chair of the Democratic National Committee
- John Mosher Bailey (1838–1916), U.S. Representative from New York
- John Bailey (Irish politician) member of Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council
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“Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water until he had learnt to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
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