Historical
- French Directory or Directorate, one of the French Revolution's governing bodies, 1795–1799
- Directorate of Ukraine, provisional revolutionary state committee of the Ukrainian National Republic, 1918–1920
- Directorate (Russia), the ruling body of the Russian Provisional Government, September–October 1917
- Directorate of Military Intelligence, a department of the War Office (United Kingdom), disestablished 1964
- Immigration and Nationality Directorate, an agency of the Home Office (United Kingdom), disestablished 2007
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“Religion means goal and way, politics implies end and means. The political end is recognizable by the fact that it may be attained—in success—and its attainment is historically recorded. The religious goal remains, even in man’s highest experiences, that which simply provides direction on the mortal way; it never enters into historical consummation.”
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)