Politics
- John Matthews (Australian politician) (born 1928), New South Wales politician
- John Matthews (physician) (1755–1826), physician and poet, MP for Herefordshire, 1803–1806
- John H. Matthews (known as Jack, 1888–1956), Canadian politician
- John Matthews (politician) (died 1832), English-born politician in Upper Canada
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“I have come to the conclusion that the closer people are to what may be called the front lines of government ... the easier it is to see the immediate underbrush, the individual tree trunks of the moment, and to forget the nobility the usefulness and the wide extent of the forest itself.... They forget that politics after all is only an instrument through which to achieve Government.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous.... Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.”
—Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)