Government
- John McCarthy (ambassador born 1942), Australian ambassador to Vietnam, Mexico, Thailand, the United States, Indonesia, India and Japan
- John McCarthy (ambassador born 1947), Australian ambassador to the Holy See (2012–)
- John Thomas McCarthy (born 1939), U.S. ambassador
- John F. McCarthy (1924-1981) California Republican senator
- John H. McCarthy (1850–1908), U.S. Representative from New York
- John McCarthy (Nebraska politician) (1857–1943), Nebraska Republican politician
- John V. McCarthy, former member of the Ohio House of Representatives.
- John McCarthy (MP), Member of Parliament for Mid Tipperary, 1892–1893
- John George MacCarthy, Member of Parliament for Mallow, 1874–1880
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“What shall we think of a government to which all the truly brave and just men in the land are enemies, standing between it and those whom it oppresses? A government that pretends to be Christian and crucifies a million Christs every day!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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“Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)