Politicians
- Acton Adams (William Acton Blakeway Adams), 19th century New Zealand politician
- William Adams (British politician) (1752–1811), MP for Totnes
- William Adams (British Columbia politician) (1851–?), rancher and politician in British Columbia, Canada
- William Adams (New Zealand politician) (1811–1884), New Zealand politician
- William Henry Adams (1809–1865), British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Boston 1857–1859
- William Taylor Adams (1822–1897), author & politician
- Billy Adams (William Herbert Adams, 1861–1954), Governor of Colorado
- William G. Adams (1923–2005), Canadian politician
- Willie Adams (born 1934), Canadian politician
- William Thomas Adams (1884–1949), British Member of Parliament for Hammersmith South, 1945–1949
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“Being dismantled before our eyes are not just individual programs that politicians cite as too expensive but the whole idea that society has a stake in the well-being of children down the block and the security of families on the other side of town. Whether or not kids eat well, are nurtured and have a roof over their heads is not just a consequence of how their parents behave. It is also a responsibility of society—but now apparently a diminishing one.”
—Richard B. Stolley (20th century)
“The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens.... Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians ... have attempted to exploit it.”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)
“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)