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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
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Andrew Johnson
Age: 66 †
Born: 1808
Born: December 29
Died: 1875
Died: July 31
17Th U.S. President
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Raleigh
North Carolina
A. Johnson
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Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
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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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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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Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.
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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.
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My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles.
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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
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If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.
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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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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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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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I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
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