Top 44 Quotes About Andrew Johnson
#1. Andrew Johnson wasn't too bad, but he was overwhelmed by a hostile Congress.
Harry S. Truman
#2. A hastily written "Civil Rights Act" was rushed through Congress. President Andrew Johnson immediately vetoed it, noting that the right to confer citizenship rested with the several states, and that "the tendency of the bill is to resuscitate the spirit of rebellion".
Eustace Mullins
#3. Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
Stephen Ambrose
#4. No man has a right to judge Andrew Johnson in any respect who has not suffered as much and done as much as he for the Nation's sake.
Abraham Lincoln
#5. If there was ever a president who could be called our Charlie Browniest, it would be Andrew Johnson.
Daniel O'Brien
#6. I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
Stephen Ambrose
#7. 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.
Andrew Johnson
#8. 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
#9. 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.
Andrew Johnson
#10. God being willing and whether traitors be few or many I intend to fight them to the end.
Andrew Johnson
#11. Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor
Andrew Johnson
#12. I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.
Andrew Johnson
#13. WTF? I am so tired I can't see straight. Kids have no bedtime in the summer? Screw that shit. I'll enforce it - if not for them, then for me. I want to pass out by eight now, which is uncool because the sun is still out. Can you give children melatonin? Or is Benadryl still the go-to?
Amber L. Johnson
#14. Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.
Andrew Johnson
#15. If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.
Andrew Johnson
#17. Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
Andrew Johnson
#18. When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.
Andrew Johnson
#19. If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.
Andrew Johnson
#20. The look of impressed wonder made my inner teenager lock himself in the bathroom with a Playboy.
Amber L. Johnson
#21. 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.
Andrew Johnson
#22. I feel incompetent to perform duties ... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
Andrew Johnson
#23. 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.
Andrew Johnson
#24. All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd;nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn't fair.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.
Andrew Johnson
#29. 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.
Andrew Johnson
#30. The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.
Andrew Johnson
#31. Wednesday: A thousand kids running around and trampling each other on the slides at Monkey Joe's. Afraid for Brady's safety and had to leave before I punched an eight-year-old in the face
Amber L. Johnson
#32. Brady was staring at me from across the table. Unmoving. Unblinking. Not speaking. It was like an old Western. The house was too quiet as I stared back at him. He was winning this contest. And I'd had no idea we were even in one to begin with. Break, kid. Break
Amber L. Johnson
#33. Huh? What did I promise?"
"Fowevew," he said with a nod, like it was final.
"Exactly."
We stared at each other, and it reminded me of my first day, when he stared me down like a mute gunslinger.
Amber L. Johnson
#34. The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
Andrew Johnson
#35. If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!
Andrew Johnson
#37. My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles.
Andrew Johnson
#38. There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.
Andrew Johnson
#39. 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.
Andrew Johnson
#40. 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!
Andrew Johnson
#41. Wednesday: Do none of these cartoon kids have parents? Max and Ruby - do they live alone? And why won't she EVER listen to what Max says? Damn goody-goody know-it-all. Reminds me of Cece.
Amber L. Johnson
#44. Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
Andrew Johnson
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