18th Century and Earlier
- John Phillips (bishop of Sodor and Man) (died 1633), Bishop of Sodor and Man in the Church of England
- John Phillips (author) (1631–1706), author and secretary to John Milton
- John Phillips (c. 1709–1775), English master carpenter
- John Phillips (educator) (1719–1795), American merchant and founder of Phillips Exeter Academy
- John Phillips (pirate) (died 1724), captain of the pirate ship Revenge
- John Phillips (mayor) (1770–1823), first mayor of Boston, 1822–1823
- John Leigh Philips (1761–1841), textile manufacturer and collector of art
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“The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.”
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