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 More Quotes by John Sharp Williams More Quotes From John Sharp Williams For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things. John Sharp Williams retiring judgment retirement My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government. John Sharp Williams me government reading history