"Legislation can neither be wise nor just which……" — Andrew Johnson
"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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Andrew Johnson
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27 Quotes by Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson has 27 quotes on this site.
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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
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The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.
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Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
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I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
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If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with…
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The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands…
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Let them impeach and be damned.
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For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled…
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There are some who lack confidence in the integrity and capacity of the people to govern themselves. To all who…
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Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men,…
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I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is…
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I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I…
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More Expense Quotes
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one of 529 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the…
— Jane Austen
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Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
— Frederic Bastiat
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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
— Frederic Bastiat
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They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
— Scott Adams
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The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.
— Josh Billings
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I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if…
— Russell Brand
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Book tours are really kind of fun. You get to stay in nice hotels, you are driven everywhere in big…
— Bill Bryson
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
— Madeleine Albright
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
— Edmund Burke
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
— Samuel Butler
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