Politicians
- John James (MP for Wallingford), 1364-78, Member of Parliament (MP) for Wallingford
- John James (14th-century MP), MP for Melcombe Regis
- John James (died 1601), MP for St Ives and Newcastle-under-Lyme
- John James (Canadian politician) (1911–1999), Canadian Member of Parliament
- John H. James (1830–1917), mayor of Atlanta
- John James (Parliamentarian) (1610–1681), English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1653 for Worcestershire
- John James (died 1718), MP for Brackley
- John James (MP for Maldon), MP for Maldon
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“Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water until he had learnt to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
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