Politics
- John Maxwell, 1st Baron Farnham (1687–1759), Irish peer and politician
- John Maxwell, 2nd Earl of Farnham (1760–1823), Irish Representative peer and politician
- John Patterson Bryan Maxwell (1804–1845), New Jersey House Representative for the Whig Party
- Sir John Maxwell, 7th Baronet (1768–1844), British Member of the UK Parliament for Paisley
- Sir John Maxwell, 8th Baronet, British Member of the UK Parliament for Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire
- John Waring Maxwell, Member of the UK Parliament for Downpatrick
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“Our family talked a lot at table, and only two subjects were taboo: politics and personal troubles. The first was sternly avoided because Father ran a nonpartisan daily in a small town, with some success, and did not wish to express his own opinions in public, even when in private.”
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)
“While you’re playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
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—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)