Government
- John MacDonald II or John of Islay, Earl of Ross (1434–1503), last Lord of the Isles, Scotland
- John Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh (1836–1919), Scottish politician and later a judge
- John Kinneir Macdonald (1782-1830), British traveller and diplomat, envoy to Persia
- John A. Macdonald (1815–1891), first Canadian prime minister
- John Alexander MacDonald (Prince Edward Island politician) (born 1838), former speaker of the Prince Edward Island assembly
- John Alexander Macdonald (Prince Edward Island politician) (1874–1948), Canadian member of parliament for King's, Prince Edward Island
- John Alexander Macdonald (Nova Scotia politician) (born 1883), first elected in 1925 as Conservative member for Richmond—West Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, later appointed to the Senate
- John Alexander Macdonald Armstrong (1877–1926), Canadian politician, conveyancer and real estate agent
- John Macdonald (British politician) (1854–1939), British Liberal politician
- John Augustine Macdonald, Canadian Member of Parliament, King's, Prince Edward Island
- John Joseph MacDonald (1891-1986) Canadian Senator for Prince Edward Island
- John L. MacDonald (1838–1903), American representative from Minnesota
- John Macdonald (Canadian politician) (1824–1890), Canadian member of parliament and later a Canadian Senator
- John Michael Macdonald (1906–1997), Canadian Senator for Nova Scotia
- John Sandfield Macdonald (1812–1872), first Premier of Ontario
- John Small MacDonald (ca. 1791–1849), Prince Edward Island merchant and politician
- John MacDonald (Australian politician), Senator for Queensland
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Famous quotes containing the word government:
“The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts,—a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It’s no go the picture palace, it’s no go the stadium,
It’s no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums.
It’s no go the Government grants, it’s no go the elections,
Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension.”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)