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.
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.
I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.
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.
