Andrew Johnson

“I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple.”

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

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

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

“This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government for white men.”

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

“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.”

“I am for the people of the whole country.”

“The Constitution is my guide. I am sworn to obey it. I shall act in conformity with it.”

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