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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
Military Officer
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Raleigh
North Carolina
A. Johnson
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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!'
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Honest conviction is my courage the Constitution is my guide.
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I have reached the summit of my ambition.
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The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
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It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
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Duties have been mine consequences are God's.
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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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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.
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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.
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.
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Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.
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Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
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I never thought I would be impeached.
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There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.
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My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles.
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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.
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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 feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
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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
If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.
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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.
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