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Quotes from Presidential Government in the United States: The Unwritten Constitution — Andrew Johnson

1808–1875 United States

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Your President is now the Tribune of the people, and, thank God, I am, and intend to assert the power which the people have placed in me... Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

Presidential Government in the United States: The Unwritten Constitution (1947)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Andrew Johnson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.