Politicians
- Peter Smith (Canadian politician) (born c. 1870s), Canadian politician involved in the Ontario Bond Scandal
- Peter Smith (diplomat) (born 1942), Governor of the Cayman Islands, 1999–2002
- Peter Smith, Baron Smith of Leigh (born 1945), leader of Wigan council and member of the House of Lords
- Peter J. Smith (Wisconsin politician), member of the Wisconsin State Senate
- Peter Plympton Smith (born 1945), lieutenant-governor and congressman from Vermont, president of California State University, Monterey Bay
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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)
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