74 Quotes by Andrew Johnson

Without a home there can be no good citizen. With a home there can be no bad one.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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