Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

Andrew Johnson's Popular Quotes

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

- Andrew Johnson

If blacks were given the right to vote, that would place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebo…

- Andrew Johnson

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

- Andrew Johnson

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

- Andrew Johnson

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

- Andrew Johnson

I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to p…

- Andrew Johnson

Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.

- Andrew Johnson

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

- Andrew Johnson

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 fat…

- Andrew Johnson