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If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!
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
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Let them impeach and be damned.
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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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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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Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.
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I never thought I would be impeached.
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Duties have been mine consequences are God's.
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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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Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
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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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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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It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
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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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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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Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.
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I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
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The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
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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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