Government
- William B. Cooper (1771–1849), American farmer and politician
- William B. Cooper (NC politician) (1867–1959), lieutenant governor of North Carolina
- William C. Cooper (1832–1902), US congressman from Ohio
- William Cooper (judge) (1754–1809), father of James Fenimore Cooper and founder of Cooperstown, New York
- Prentice Cooper (William Prentice Cooper, 1895–1969), Tennessee governor
- William Raworth Cooper (1793–1856), US congressman from New Jersey
- William Frierson Cooper (1820–1909), lawyer, politician and judge of the Tennessee Supreme Court
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“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
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