Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Andrew Johnson
- My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles.
- Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.
- I realized, there are people out there who can beat me, want to beat me. And unless I continue to innovate and evolve, I am going to learn a painful lesson from someone who has.
- If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.
- I feel incompetent to perform duties…which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
- It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic.
- 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 you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!
- If blacks were given the right to vote, that would place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored in the country upon an equality with the poor white man.
- 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, born on December 29, 1808, in Raleigh, North Carolina, was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. A tailor by trade, Johnson entered politics and rose through the ranks, becoming the governor of Tennessee in the early 1850s. He gained national prominence when he remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War, despite being a Southern Democrat. Abraham Lincoln chose him as his running mate in the 1864 election to promote a spirit of national unity.
Following Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, Johnson assumed the presidency during a tumultuous period of Reconstruction. His approach to restoring the Southern states to the Union faced opposition, and conflicts with the Radical Republicans in Congress led to his impeachment in 1868, making him the first U.S. president to undergo such proceedings. Johnson narrowly avoided removal from office, remaining in power until 1869.
Known for his lenient approach toward the Southern states and his clashes with Congress, Andrew Johnson’s presidency remains controversial. He returned to the Senate after leaving the White House and continued to be active in politics until his death on July 31, 1875, in Elizabethton, Tennessee.
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