Politicians
- William Kennedy (North Carolina) (1768–1834), U.S. Congressman from North Carolina
- William Kennedy (New Jersey) (1775–1826), acting governor of New Jersey
- William Nassau Kennedy (1839–1885), second Mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- William Kennedy (Connecticut) (1854–1918), United States congressman from Connecticut
- William Costello Kennedy (1868–1923), Canadian businessman and politician
- William James Kennedy (politician) (1857–1912), politician in Manitoba, Canada
- John William Kennedy (born 1910), Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland
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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.”
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