Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnsonwas the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as he was vice president at the time of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination. A Democrat who ran with Lincoln on the National Union ticket, Johnson came to office as the Civil War concluded. The new president favored quick restoration of the seceded states to the Union. His plans did not give protection to the former slaves, and he came into conflict with the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth29 December 1808
CityRaleigh, NC
CountryUnited States of America
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.
The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.
If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!
The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
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
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.
When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.
I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
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