Politicians
- William Phillips (diplomat) (1878–1968), U.S. diplomat, first United States ambassador to Canada
- William A. Phillips (1824–1893), American lawyer and politician
- William Edward Phillips (fl. 1810–1826), Governor of Penang
- William Phillips, Jr. (1750–1827), Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, 1812–1823
- William Philips (MP) for Bath (UK Parliament constituency)
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“Wit puts politicians at risk.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Practically speaking, the opponents to a reform in Massachusetts are not a hundred thousand politicians at the South, but a hundred thousand merchants and farmers here, who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in humanity, and are not prepared to do justice to the slave and to Mexico, cost what it may. I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, coöperate with, and do the bidding of, those far away, and without whom the latter would be harmless.”
—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)