Government
- William B. Cooper (1771–1849), American farmer and politician
- William B. Cooper (NC politician) (1867–1959), lieutenant governor of North Carolina
- William C. Cooper (1832–1902), US congressman from Ohio
- William Cooper (judge) (1754–1809), father of James Fenimore Cooper and founder of Cooperstown, New York
- Prentice Cooper (William Prentice Cooper, 1895–1969), Tennessee governor
- William Raworth Cooper (1793–1856), US congressman from New Jersey
- William Frierson Cooper (1820–1909), lawyer, politician and judge of the Tennessee Supreme Court
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Famous quotes containing the word government:
“I incline to think that the people will not now sustain the policy of upholding a State Government against a rival government, by the use of the forces of the United States. If this leads to the overthrow of the de jure government in a State, the de facto government must be recognized.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)