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:
“It’s no go the picture palace, it’s no go the stadium,
It’s no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums.
It’s no go the Government grants, it’s no go the elections,
Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension.”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)
“Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“The tide which, after our former relaxed government, took a violent course towards the opposite extreme, and seemed ready to hang every thing round with the tassils and baubles of monarchy, is now getting back as we hope to a just mean, a government of laws addressed to the reason of the people, and not to their weaknesses.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)