Quote #22
I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.
More from Andrew Johnson
- Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
- If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.
- The attempt to place the white population under the domination of persons of color in the South has impaired, if not destroyed, the kindly …
- Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gi…
- It may be safely assumed as an axiom in the government of states that the greatest wrongs inflicted upon a people are caused by unjust and …
- Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
- I hold it the duty of the Executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditures, and a sparing economy is itself a great national resource.
- It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.