Andrew Johnson
Quotations

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

"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."

 

"Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one. "