Politicians
- John Simpson (Parliamentarian), politician of the post-English Civil War period, see Thomas Kelsey
- John Simpson (Kentucky), American Congressman-elect from Kentucky, who died before the start of the 13th Congress in 1813, see Kentucky in the War of 1812
- John Simpson (Quebec politician) (1788–1873), government official and politician in Quebec
- John Simpson (Canada West politician) (1807–1878), Canadian businessman and politician
- John Simpson (Ontario politician) (1812–1885), Ontario banker and member of the Senate of Canada
- John A. Simpson (1854–1916), Canadian politician
- John Thomas Simpson (1870–1965), Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons
- John Simpson (MP) (1763–1850), English politician, Member of Parliament for Wenlock
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“Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water until he had learnt to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“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.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Wit puts politicians at risk.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)