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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.
SUBJECTS: Government