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Our Government springs from and was made for the people — not the people for the Government. To them it owes allegiance; from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.

— Andrew Johnson

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

Those damned sons of bitches thought they had me in a trap! I know that damned Douglass; he's just like any nigger, and he would sooner cut a white man's throat than not.

Andrew Johnson: A Profile (1969)

There are some who lack confidence in the integrity and capacity of the people to govern themselves.

Statement (1853)

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.

Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.

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