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Andrew Johnson

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Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.


— Andrew Johnson


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The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.


— Andrew Johnson


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If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.


— Andrew Johnson


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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.


— Andrew Johnson


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


— Andrew Johnson


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I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.


— Andrew Johnson


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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


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If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.


— Andrew Johnson


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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.


— Andrew Johnson


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Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.


— Andrew Johnson


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About Andrew Johnson

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Did you know about Andrew Johnson?

Shy and retiring by nature Eliza Johnson usually remained in Greeneville during Johnson's political rise. The new president favored quick restoration of the seceded states to the Union.

A Democrat who ran with Lincoln on the National Union ticket Johnson came to office as the Civil War concluded. He became Governor of Tennessee for four years and was elected by the legislature to the Senate in 1857.

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