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I have reached the summit of my ambition.
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
Politician
Slaveholder
Statesperson
Tailor
Raleigh
North Carolina
A. Johnson
President Johnson
Reached
Ambition
Summit
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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.
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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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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.
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I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
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My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles.
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If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.
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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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Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.
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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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If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!
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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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Honest conviction is my courage the Constitution is my guide.
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The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
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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 am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.
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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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Duties have been mine consequences are God's.
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I never thought I would be impeached.
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