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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.

  Andrew Johnson

  Country, Presidential, Would Be

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• I never thought I would be impeached.

  Andrew Johnson

  Would Be

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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!

  Andrew Johnson

  War, Fate, Care

  Andrew Johnson (1866). “Life and Times of A. Johnson ... Written from a national stand-point. By a National Man”, p.131

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• There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

  Andrew Johnson

  Law, Lawyer

  "Andrew Johnson, Plebeian and Patriot". Book by Robert Watson Winston, 1928.

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• I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.

  Andrew Johnson

  Constitution, Johnson

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• If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution of the United States in English and write their names and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at not less than two hundred and fifty dollars and pay taxes thereon, and would completely disarm the adversary. This you can do with perfect safety. And as a consequence, the radicals, who are wild upon negro franchise, will be completely foiled in their attempts to keep the Southern States from renewing their relations to the Union.

  Andrew Johnson

  Real, Writing, Color

  Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: May-August 1865”, p.599, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

  Andrew Johnson

  Freedom, Democracy, Despotism

  "Presidential Government in the United States: The Unwritten Constitution". Book by Caleb Perry Patterson, 1947.

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• The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious settlers, whose labor creates wealth and contributes to the public resources, are worth more to the United States than if they had been reserved as a solitude for future purchasers.

  Andrew Johnson

  Hands, Land, Long

  Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1865-January 1866”, p.476, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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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.

  Andrew Johnson

  Wrath, Tonight, Gang

  Andrew Johnson, Benjamin Perley Poore (1868). “Trial of Andrew Johnson: President of the United States, Before the Senate of the United States, on Impeachment by the House of Representatives for High Crimes and Misdemeanors”, p.326

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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.

  Andrew Johnson

  Wisdom, Government, Ties

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• I have performed my duty to my God, my country, and my family. I have nothing to fear in approaching death. To me it is the mere shadow of God's protecting wing . . . Here I will rest in quiet and peace beyond the reach of calumny's poisoned shaft, the influence of envy and jealous enemies, where treason and traitors or State backsliders and hypocrites in church can have no peace.

  Andrew Johnson

  Country, Jealous, Hypocrite

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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

  Angel, Men, Political

  Andrew Johnson, LeRoy P. Graf, Ralph W. Haskins, Paul H. Bergeron (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: 1852-1857”, p.175, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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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.

  Andrew Johnson

  Economy, Source, Duty

  First State of the Union Address, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. December 04, 1865.

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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.

  Andrew Johnson

  War, Believe, Southern

  Andrew Johnson (1860). “The Constitutionality and Rightfulness of Secession: Speech of Hon. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, in the Senate of the United States ... December 18 and 19, 1860”

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