Quotes from Andrew Johnson

"The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people."
"Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide."
"There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws."
"If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country."
"Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North."
"If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet."
"Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs."