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:
“The only government that I recognize—and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army—is that power that establishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.”
—John Caldwell Calhoun (1782–1850)
“There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)