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:
“I have come to the conclusion that the closer people are to what may be called the front lines of government ... the easier it is to see the immediate underbrush, the individual tree trunks of the moment, and to forget the nobility the usefulness and the wide extent of the forest itself.... They forget that politics after all is only an instrument through which to achieve Government.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,—that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.”
—Malcolm X (1925–1965)