Politicians
- John Parry (1518-1584), MP for Carmarthen Boroughs (UK Parliament constituency)
- John Parry (MP) (1724–1797), Welsh Member of Parliament for Caernarvonshire
- John Edmund Parry (born 1946), member of the Canadian House of Commons, 1984–1988
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“Practically speaking, the opponents to a reform in Massachusetts are not a hundred thousand politicians at the South, but a hundred thousand merchants and farmers here, who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in humanity, and are not prepared to do justice to the slave and to Mexico, cost what it may. I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, coöperate with, and do the bidding of, those far away, and without whom the latter would be harmless.”
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