Top 31 Andrew Johnson Quotes
#1. Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my official duties and fulfilled my pledges. And I say here tonight that if my predecessor had lived, the vials of wrath would have poured out upon him.
Andrew Johnson
#2. Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.
Andrew Johnson
#3. I realized, there are people out there who can beat me, want to beat me. And unless I continue to innovate and evolve, I am going to learn a painful lesson from someone who has.
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#4. The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.
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#5. The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
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#6. If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!
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#7. The enactment of the Homestead Act would create the strongest tie between the citizen and the Government-he would with cheerfulness contribute his proportionable part of the taxes to defray the expenses of the political system under which he lived.
Andrew Johnson
#8. My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles.
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#9. There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.
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#10. It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic.
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#11. For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled to a traitor's fate!
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#14. Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
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#16. Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.
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#17. Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.
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#18. God being willing and whether traitors be few or many I intend to fight them to the end.
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#19. Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor
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#20. I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.
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#21. Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.
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#22. If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.
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#24. Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
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#25. When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.
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#26. If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.
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#27. I tell our sisters in the South that so far as Tennessee is concerned she will not be dragged into a Southern or any other confederacy until she has had time to consider; and then she will go when she believes it to be her interest, and not before.
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#28. I feel incompetent to perform duties ... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
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#29. Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
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#30. If blacks were given the right to vote, that would place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored in the country upon an equality with the poor white man.
Andrew Johnson
#31. I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
Andrew Johnson
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