In Politics
- William Jackson (fl.1601-1604), MP for Guildford (UK Parliament constituency) and Haslemere
- William Jackson (Massachusetts) (1783–1855), US Congressman from Massachusetts
- William Jackson (Saugus, Massachusetts), English-American pottery manufacturer and politician from Saugus, Massachusetts
- William Jackson (secretary) (1759–1828), Secretary to the Philadelphia Convention and member of the U.S. Continental Army
- William Jackson (Canadian politician) (1858–1938), Canadian Member of Parliament
- William A. Jackson, a Black Dispatches spy during the American Civil War
- William Harding Jackson (1901–1971), former United States National Security Advisor
- William Humphreys Jackson (1839–1915), former Congressman from Maryland
- William Purnell Jackson (1868–1939), former member of the United States Senate from Maryland
- William S. Jackson (died 1932), New York State Attorney General, 1907–1908
- William T. Jackson (1876–1933), former mayor of Toledo, Ohio
- William Terry Jackson (1794–1882), U.S. Representative from New York
- Sir William Jackson, 1st Baronet (1805–1876), British MP for Newcastle under Lyme and Derbyshire North
- William Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton (1840–1917), English politician, Member of Parliament for Leeds
- William Jackson, 1st Baron Jackson (1893–1954), Member of Parliament for Brecon and Radnorshire, 1939–1945
- William Jackson (New Zealand politician) (1832–1889), New Zealand politician
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“The newspaper reader says: this party is destroying itself through such mistakes. My higher politics says: a party that makes such mistakes is finished—it has lost its instinctive sureness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practise politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.”
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