John Sharp Williams Quotes

United States, Politician
July 30, 1854 – September, 27, 1932.

John Sharp Williams was a prominent American politician in the Democratic Party from the 1890s through the 1920s, and served as the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1908.

For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.

John Sharp Williams
I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.

John Sharp Williams
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- May
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

John Sharp Williams
- Bad
- History
- Reading