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:
“Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.”
—J.B.S. (John Burdon Sanderson)
“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)
“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)