Andrew Johnson Quotes

When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.

If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!

The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.

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

Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

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

Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Let them impeach and be damned.

My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles.

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

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!

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

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.

Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.

I have reached the summit of my ambition.

I never thought I would be impeached.

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

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

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.

Honest conviction is my courage the Constitution is my guide.