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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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“Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds ... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
“As a Tax-Paying Citizen of the United States I am entitled to a voice in Governmental affairs.... Having paid this unlawful Tax under written Protest for forty years, I am entitled to receive from the Treasury of ‘Uncle Sam’ the full amount of both Principal and Interest.”
—Susan Pecker Fowler (1823–1911)
“When Mr. Apollinax visited the United States
His laughter tinkled among the teacups.
I thought of Fragilion, that shy figure among the birch-trees,
And of Priapus in the shrubbery
Gaping at the lady in the swing.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.”
—Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)