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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Famous quotes containing the word government:
“And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“The tide which, after our former relaxed government, took a violent course towards the opposite extreme, and seemed ready to hang every thing round with the tassils and baubles of monarchy, is now getting back as we hope to a just mean, a government of laws addressed to the reason of the people, and not to their weaknesses.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“You and I ... are convinced of the fact that if our Government in Washington and in a majority of the States should revert to the control of those who frankly put property ahead of human beings instead of working for human beings under a system of government which recognizes property, the nation as a whole would again be in a bad situation.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)