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The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
Andrew Johnson
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Andrew Johnson
Age: 66 †
Born: 1808
Born: December 29
Died: 1875
Died: July 31
17Th U.S. President
Military Officer
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Slaveholder
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Raleigh
North Carolina
A. Johnson
President Johnson
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More quotes by Andrew Johnson
Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it and inscribed for our motto: 'Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever,' and exclaim, 'Christ first, our country next!'
Andrew Johnson
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
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
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
Duties have been mine consequences are God's.
Andrew Johnson
I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.
Andrew Johnson
If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.
Andrew Johnson
My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles.
Andrew Johnson
Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.
Andrew Johnson
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
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 so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
Andrew Johnson
Let them impeach and be damned.
Andrew Johnson
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
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 the Government of my fathers with negroes. I am for it without negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space
Andrew Johnson
It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
Andrew Johnson
I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
Andrew Johnson
If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.
Andrew Johnson
There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.
Andrew Johnson
The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.
Andrew Johnson
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
