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

— Andrew Johnson Plebeian and Patriot (1928)

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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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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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