Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
758
AUTHOR:
John Sharp Williams (1854–1932)
QUOTATION:
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.
ATTRIBUTION:
Senator JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS, Thomas Jefferson: His Permanent Influence on American Institutions, p. 49 (1913). Lecture delivered at Columbia University, New York City, 1912.
