Andrew Johnson Quotations

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

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

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

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.

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

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 the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

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

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.

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

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.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

I don't think it has sunk in yet. Even on 17 when I looked up and saw my name on the board, I thought 'does that say four shots?' Early on I was really, really nervous.

Whatever coach Coker wanted me to do, I was willing to do, ... If he wanted me to sit the rest of the year, then that's what I would have done. This opportunity came and he asked me if I wanted to play. Any player is going to say yes.

There is a great bunch of players and I would be more than happy to stay.

Just to and keep the ball in play.

I was disappointed. I wanted to go against the No. 3 state player.

I think that's been a really important, big step in the U.S. having more competitive results internationally.

My putting was a real strength for me today. I holed a few bombs for birdies, but I also made all the short ones, and they really count when it comes to adding up your score.

It felt good. (I was thinking) that I've got to get out ahead and get on top of him before he comes out and hits me harder.

I'm sitting at 150, $1,000 gets you nowhere. I was at my wits end. I was hitting it terrible at the beginning of the week. I think today the putt on No. 3 woke me up. It is great to hit the shots and make the putts you need to.

We are always looking for ways to expand the natural part of our business. But our core business is going to be based on the core cable business.

The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious settlers, whose labor creates wealth and contributes to the public resources, are worth more to the United States than if they had been reserved as a solitude for future purchasers.

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.

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.

Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.

I have performed my duty to my God, my country, and my family. I have nothing to fear in approaching death. To me it is the mere shadow of God's protecting wing . . . Here I will rest in quiet and peace beyond the reach of calumny's poisoned shaft, the influence of envy and jealous enemies, where treason and traitors or State backsliders and hypocrites in church can have no peace.

Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it and inscribed for our motto: 'Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever,' and exclaim, 'Christ first, our country next!'

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.

If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution of the United States in English and write their names and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at not less than two hundred and fifty dollars and pay taxes thereon, and would completely disarm the adversary. This you can do with perfect safety. And as a consequence, the radicals, who are wild upon negro franchise, will be completely foiled in their attempts to keep the Southern States from renewing their relations to the Union.

I never thought I would be impeached.

I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

I have reached the summit of my ambition.

There are some who lack confidence in the integrity and capacity of the people to govern themselves. To all who entertain such fears I will most respectfully say that I entertain none . . . If man is not capable, and is not to be trusted with the government of himself, is he to be trusted with the government of others . . . 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.

Let them impeach and be damned.

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!

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

Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.

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

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

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

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.

The sovereignty of the States is the language of the Confederacy and not the language of the Constitution. The latter contains the emphatic words. This Constitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof and all treaties made or which shall be made under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding

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.

I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

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

If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!

I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with negroes. I am for it without negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space

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.

We're looking at a market where 15 percent of people said they'd be buying in a year, and 40 percent of people will be ready to buy in two years. So what about that 25 percent who are waiting the extra year? They're not in a rush, but they will buy. They have some concerns about confidentiality and reliability of delivery. They want to know who will address these concerns.

We want to get it done as quickly and inexpensively with as much creativity and flexibility as we can have.

We are certainly gratified by the Board of Supervisors' vote to accept the settlement agreement we proposed. We have said that this represents a true win-win for Comcast and the residents of San Francisco. And we believe the deal is exactly that.

Everything started going in today. I've been sick all this week, coughing and hacking, and I started feeling a little better today.

A lot of people have an interest in buying eventually.

They must either fix what people consider to be a problem, or else convince these people that this isn't really a problem,

They don't remember a time when we had to drink from a different water fountain, ... We can't go back. We can never go back.

AT&T is spending years and billions of dollars to imitate a network that Comcast has al ready built. We've seen nothing... that we can't exceed.

It was the most crazy spring break I've ever had in my life.

It really helps my confidence to go in there and do well.

It shows all of our hard work that we've done. It also shows how much we can still achieve.

Everybody was probably thinking 'He shot 62, he can't do it again. Maybe that helped me today. But early on I was really, really nervous. The first drive felt like the head cover was still on the club.

The best thing about it is it's always changing. I'm ahead $50 and I got to play all day.

I've learned how to deal with some things (this year). 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.

I know it sounds cliche, but I tried to take it one shot at a time. I really just tried to stay in the moment.

I get a lot of dirty looks on the freeway when I pass someone that's taking their sweet time and I'm only going 70.

I realized this year, you can't always be excellent, you can't be perfect. It was an eye-opening year. This is definitely one of its ups.

I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

You could take your old phone number, leave the phone company and save 20 to 25 percent, but still have the full features.