Andrew Johnson Famous Quotes



"Our government sprang from and was made for the people -- not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom."


Andrew Johnson Quotations






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Before borrowing money from a friend it's best to decide which you need most.
Joe Moore

He who has great power should use it lightly.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do."
Richard Milhous Nixon

They can conquer who believe they can.
Virgil

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
Louis Kronenberger

"As a sinner I could not please God, I could not neutralize or pay for my own sin. But when God justified me by His grace He went on record declaring me righteous. He didn't wave a magic wand and declare me to be innocent. His holiness would not permit it. A basis for declaring me righteous was needed. The ground upon which my justification is built is the substitutionary death of His son, Jesus Christ. The shedding of blood demonstrates the righteousness of God 'that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus' (Rom. 326 NKJV). What a marvelous plan Man's plan of salvation by good works is offensive to God and to anyone who has been saved by God's grace."
Larry Riemersma

"Why dost thou gaze upon the sky O that I were yon spangled sphere Then every star should be an eye, To wander o'er thy beauties here."
Sir Thomas More

"Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures."
Vince Lombardi

Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.
Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville