Government
- W. Marvin Watson (born 1924), U.S. Postmaster General
- William Watson (16th century MP), MP for the City of York
- William Watson (Australian politician) (1864–1938), Australian politician
- William Watson, Mayor of Rockford, Illinois, 1878-79
- Sir William Henry Watson (1796–1860), Baron of the Exchequer
- William McLean Watson (1874–1962), MP for Dunfermline Burghs, 1922–1931 and 1935–1950
- William T. Watson (1849–1917), American banker and Governor of Delaware
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Famous quotes containing the word government:
“[F]rom Saratoga [N.Y.] till we got back to Northampton [Mass.], was then mostly desert. Now it is what 34. years of free and good government have made it. It shews how soon the labor of man would make a paradise of the whole earth, were it not for misgovernment, and a diversion of all his energies from their proper object, the happiness of man, to the selfish interests of kings, nobles and priests.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“The government does not concern me much, and I shall bestow the fewest possible thoughts on it. It is not many moments that I live under a government, even in this world. If a man is thought- free, fancy-free, imagination-free ... unwise rulers or reformers cannot fatally interrupt him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)