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- John Clarke (Baptist minister) (1609–1676), co-founder of Rhode Island
- John Clarke (Congregationalist minister) (1755–1798), minister, First Church, Boston, Massachusetts
- John Clarke (poet) (1933–1992), American poet
- John Clarke (general), American general in the Creek War (1813–1814), from Georgia
- John Clarke (fur trader) (1781–1852), Hudson's Bay Company fur trader
- John Clarke (actor) (born 1932), American soap opera actor from Days of Our Lives
- John Blades Clarke (1833–1911), U.S. representative from Kentucky, 1875–1876
- John D. Clarke (1873–1933), U.S. representative from New York, 1921–1924 and 1927–1934
- John Hessin Clarke (1857–1945), associate justice of the US Supreme Court
- John Hopkins Clarke (1789–1870), U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, 1847–1852
- John Henrik Clarke (1915–1998), self-taught scholar who became an authority on African history and an advocate for Black Studies
- John Jones Clarke (1803–1887), American politician in the Massachusetts legislature
- John L. Clarke (1905–1991), served as president of Ricks College
- John Louis Clarke (1881–1970), Blackfoot wood carver from Montana
- John Proctor Clarke (1856–1932), judge in New York State
- John Sleeper Clarke (1833–1899), American/British actor and manager
- J. Richard Clarke (born 1927), leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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“I thought it altogether proper that I should take a brief furlough from official duties at Washington to mingle with you here to-day as a comrade, because every President of the United States must realize that the strength of the Government, its defence in war, the army that is to muster under its banner when our Nation is assailed, is to be found here in the masses of our people.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters of theatre, writing, and painting. While the American Mercury and the new Ford continue to spread a thin varnish of Ritz over the whole United States there is a certain virtue in being unfashionable.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomac ... and that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“Places where he might live and die and never hear of the United States, which make such a noise in the world,—never hear of America, so called from the name of a European gentleman.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)