Politicians
- José Augusto Vargas, Peruvian congressman
- José María Vargas, Venezuelan president
- Juan Vargas, United States politician
- Virgilio Barco Vargas, Colombian president
- Cortés Vargas, Colombian general
- Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian statesman
- Miguel Vargas Maldonado, Dominican politician
- Diego de Vargas, Spanish viceroy of New Spain
- Carlos Antonio Vargas Guatatuca, Antonio Vargas, Ecuatorian politician; Quechan.
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“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)