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Top 30 Andrew Johnson Quotes (2025 Update)

Andrew Johnson Quote: “When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.”

1. “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

Andrew Johnson Quote: “Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.”

2. “Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!”

3. “If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “It’s a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.”

4. “It’s a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled to a traitor’s fate!”

5. “For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled to a traitor’s fate!”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “I never thought I would be impeached.”

6. “I never thought I would be impeached.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.”

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

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “I have reached the summit of my ambition.”

8. “I have reached the summit of my ambition.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “Duties have been mine; consequences are God’s.”

9. “Duties have been mine; consequences are God’s.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.”

11. “I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.”

12. “There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “Without a home there can be no good citizen. With a home there can be no bad one.”

14. “Without a home there can be no good citizen. With a home there can be no bad one.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.”

16. “Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.”

17. “Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “Let them impeach and be damned.”

18. “Let them impeach and be damned.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my official duties and fulfilled my pledges. And I say here tonight that if my predecessor had lived, the vials of wrath would have poured out upon him.”

19. “Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my official duties and fulfilled my pledges. And I say here tonight that if my predecessor had lived, the vials of wrath would have poured out upon him.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles.”

20. “My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.”

21. “I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.”

22. “If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.”

23. “The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.”

25. “If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.”

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

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “The enactment of the Homestead Act would create the strongest tie between the citizen and the Government-he would with cheerfulness contribute his proportionable part of the taxes to defray the expenses of the political system under which he lived.”

27. “The enactment of the Homestead Act would create the strongest tie between the citizen and the Government-he would with cheerfulness contribute his proportionable part of the taxes to defray the expenses of the political system under which he lived.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.”

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

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “I tell our sisters in the South that so far as Tennessee is concerned she will not be dragged into a Southern or any other confederacy until she has had time to consider; and then she will go when she believes it to be her interest, and not before.”

29. “I tell our sisters in the South that so far as Tennessee is concerned she will not be dragged into a Southern or any other confederacy until she has had time to consider; and then she will go when she believes it to be her interest, and not before.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “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.”

30. “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.”

— Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Quote: “Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.”

31. “Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.”

— Andrew Johnson

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