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Andrew Johnson
Data de nascimento: 29. Dezembro 1808
Data de falecimento: 31. Julho 1875
Andrew Johnson foi um político estadunidense. Foi o 17º Presidente dos Estados Unidos de 1865 a 1869. Johnson assumiu a presidência após o assassinato do então presidente Abraham Lincoln, de quem era vice-presidente. Antes fora governador do Tennessee, e senador pelo mesmo estado.
Johnson foi um senador norte-americano de Greeneville, Tennessee, enquanto ocorria a secessão dos estados do sul. Ele foi o único senador do sul que não abandonou seu posto após a guerra e se tornou o mais proeminente "democrata de guerra" do Sul, apoiando as políticas militares do presidente norte-americano Abraham Lincoln durante a Guerra Civil de 1861-1865. Em 1862 Lincoln nomeou Johnson governador do Tennessee, onde ele provou ser enérgico e eficaz na luta contra a rebelião.
Johnson foi nomeado para ser vice-presidente em 1864 pelo Partido de União Nacional. Ele e Lincoln foram eleitos em novembro de 1864 e Johnson tornou-se presidente após o assassinato de Lincoln, sucedendo-lhe em 15 de Abril de 1865.
Como presidente, ele assumiu a responsabilidade da Reconstrução Presidencial - a primeira fase da Reconstrução - que durou até os "Republicanos Radicais" ganharem o controle do Congresso nas eleições de 1866. Sua política conciliatória com o Sul, sua pressa para reinscrever os ex-confederados de volta para a União e os seus vetos dos direitos civis embrenharam-no em uma amarga disputa com os "Republicanos Radicais". Os Radicais, na Câmara dos Representantes, fizeram uma tentativa de impeachment em 1868, enquanto sustentavam a ideia de que ele teria violado a Tenure of Office Act, uma lei promulgada pelo Congresso em março de 1867 durante o veto de Johnson, mas ele foi absolvido por um único voto no Senado. Andrew foi o primeiro presidente dos Estados Unidos a sofrer um impeachment.
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„There are some who lack confidence in the integrity and capacity of the people to govern themselves.“
— Andrew Johnson
Context: 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 a 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.
Statement (1853) as quoted in Andrew Johnson, Plebeian and Patriot (1928) by Robert Watson Winston.
„I know that damned Douglass; he's just like any nigger“
— Andrew Johnson
Context: Those damned sons of bitches thought they had me in a trap! I know that damned Douglass; he's just like any nigger, and he would sooner cut a white man's throat than not.
As quoted in Andrew Johnson: A Profile http://web.archive.org/web/20110316175449/http://home.nas.com/lopresti/ps17.htm (1969), "Johnson and the Negro", by Lawanda Cox and John H. Cox; edited by Eric L. McKitrick, Hill & Wang, New York pp. 152-153.
„Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.“
— Andrew Johnson
Context: Your President is now the Tribune of the people, and, thank God, I am, and intend to assert the power which the people have placed in me... Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.
As quoted in Presidential Government in the United States: The Unwritten Constitution (1947) by Caleb Perry Patterson. <!-- p. 122 -->
„Certainly the Government of the United States is a limited government, and so is every State government a limited government.“
— Andrew Johnson
Context: Certainly the Government of the United States is a limited government, and so is every State government a limited government. With us this idea of limitation spreads through every form of administration — general, State, and municipal — and rests on the great distinguishing principle of the recognition of the rights of man. The ancient republics absorbed the individual in the state — prescribed his religion and controlled his activity. The American system rests on the assertion of the equal right of every man to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, to freedom of conscience, to the culture and exercise of all his faculties. As a consequence the State government is limited — as to the General Government in the interest of union, as to the individual citizen in the interest of freedom.
„Our Government springs from and was made for the people — not the people for the Government. To them it owes allegiance; from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.“
— Andrew Johnson
Context: Our Government springs from and was made for the people — not the people for the Government. To them it owes allegiance; from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom. But while the Government is thus bound to defer to the people, from whom it derives its existence, it should, from the very consideration of its origin, be strong in its power of resistance to the establishment of inequalities. Monopolies, perpetuities, and class legislation are contrary to the genius of free government, and ought not to be allowed. Here there is no room for favored classes or monopolies; the principle of our Government is that of equal laws and freedom of industry. Wherever monopoly attains a foothold, it is sure to be a source of danger, discord, and trouble. We shall but fulfill our duties as legislators by according "equal and exact justice to all men," special privileges to none.
„I have had a son killed, a son-in-law die during the last battle of Nashville, another son has thrown himself away, a second son-in-law is in no better condition, I think I have had sorrow enough without having my bank account examined by a Committee of Congress.“
— Andrew Johnson
Letter to his friend Colonel William G. Moore, complaining of Congressional investigations.... (1 May 1867).
„This is your country as well as anybody else's country. This country is founded upon the principle of equality. He that is meritorious and virtuous, intellectual and well informed, must stand highest, without regard to color.“
— Andrew Johnson
To Union soldiers (1865), as quoted in Andrew Johnson: A Profile http://web.archive.org/web/20110316175449/http://home.nas.com/lopresti/ps17.htm (1969), "Johnson and the Negro", by Lawanda Cox and John H. Cox; edited by Eric L. McKitrick, Hill & Wang, New York pp. 141.
„There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.“
— Andrew Johnson
Statement (1835), as quoted in Andrew Johnson, Plebeian and Patriot (1928) by Robert Watson Winston.
„Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.“
— Andrew Johnson
Remark made by Johnson as military Governor of Tennessee, as quoted in A Reveiw of the Political Conflict in America (1876) by Alexander Harris, A Review of the Political Conflict in America http://books.google.com/books?id=SSJCAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA430&lpg=RA3-PA430&dq=%22Whenever+you+hear+a+man+prating+about+the+constitution,+spot+him+as+a+traitor.%22&source=bl&ots=qaAT3IyIjL&sig=BUycxkmzVIjpEmfNI5s_FxcjlvE&hl=en&ei=S_evS5jJO8H-8Abe5KSABw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBMQ6AEwBA, p. 430.
„It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.“
— Andrew Johnson
More commonly misattributed to Andrew Jackson, the originator of this line is actually unknown.
„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 at least equally important and equally deserving the considerations of Congress.“
— Andrew Johnson
Veto message to the House of Representatives (22 February 1869).
