Politics
- John Bennett (fl.1586-9), MP for Heytesbury and Westbury
- John Bennett (Australian politician) (born 1942), Tasmanian politician
- John Bennett (Canadian politician) (1832–1912), Ontario farmer and political figure
- John B. Bennett (1904–1964), U.S. Representative from Michigan
- John O. Bennett (born 1948), state senator and acting governor of New Jersey
- John Bennett (MP), British Member of Parliament for South Wiltshire
- John Bennett (Serjeant at Law) (1658–1723), British politician
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“The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics and trade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.”
—George Washington (1732–1799)
“The real grounds of difference upon important political questions no longer correspond with party lines.... Politics is no longer the topic of this country. Its important questions are settled... Great minds hereafter are to be employed on other matters.... Government no longer has its ancient importance.... The people’s progress, progress of every sort, no longer depends on government. But enough of politics. Henceforth I am out more than ever.”
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