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- John Shaw (navy) (1773–1823), Captain in the United States Navy
- John Shaw, killed in the Canyon Diablo Shootout in 1905, and subject of a famous postmortem photograph
- John G. Shaw (1859–1932), U.S. Representative from North Carolina
- John Shaw (bishop) (1863–1934), American Roman Catholic archbishop
- John Luis Shaw (1870–1952), Seventh-day Adventist leader
- John A. Shaw ("Jack"), U.S. Government official
- John Malach Shaw (1931–1999), U.S. federal judge
- Jack F. Shaw (1938–2009), former Western Michigan University track & cross-country coach
- John F. Shaw ("Jack") (1938-2009), U.S. Navy Rear Admiral
- John S. Shaw, former chairman of Birmingham, Alabama-based Sonat Inc.
- John Shaw (actor), American actor who portrayed Mr. Huff in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
- John Robert Shaw (born 1946), formerly archpriest, now Bishop Jerome of Manhattan of the ROCOR
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“In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
“The popular colleges of the United States are turning out more educated people with less originality and fewer geniuses than any other country.”
—Caroline Nichols Churchill (1833–?)
“God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden is all but intolerable, and the things that I have to do are just as much as the human spirit can carry.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“... it is probable that in a fit of generosity the men of the United States would have enfranchised its women en masse; and the government now staggering under the ballots of ignorant, irresponsible men, must have gone down under the additional burden of the votes which would have been thrown upon it, by millions of ignorant, irresponsible women.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)
“It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)