Andrew Johnson Quotes

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• It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
• The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.
• Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
• I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
• If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.
• The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious settlers, whose labor…
• Let them impeach and be damned.
• 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!
• There are some who lack confidence in the integrity and capacity of the people to govern themselves. To all who entertain such fears I will…
• Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing…
• 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.
• I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties…
• I have reached the summit of my ambition.
• 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…
• 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…
• There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.
• I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for…
• Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor
• The sovereignty of the States is the language of the Confederacy and not the language of the Constitution. The latter contains the emphatic words. This…
• If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

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