Andrew Johnson Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• 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.

  Andrew Johnson

  Blessing, Liberty, Sacred

  Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1868-April 1869”, p.288, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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

  Andrew Johnson

  Presidential, Duty, Feels

  Andrew Johnson's Inaugural Address, www.nytimes.com. April 17, 1865.

• Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.

  Andrew Johnson

  Duty, Mines, Has Beens

  Andrew Johnson (1866). “Life and Times of A. Johnson ... Written from a national stand-point. By a National Man”, p.165

• 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.

  Andrew Johnson

  Economy, Source, Duty

  First State of the Union Address, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. December 04, 1865.

• 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.

  Andrew Johnson

  Important, Events, Overwhelmed

  Inaugural Address. Sunday Morning Chronicle, Washington, www.gutenberg.org. April 16, 1865.

• 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.

  Andrew Johnson

  Wrath, Tonight, Gang

  Andrew Johnson, Benjamin Perley Poore (1868). “Trial of Andrew Johnson: President of the United States, Before the Senate of the United States, on Impeachment by the House of Representatives for High Crimes and Misdemeanors”, p.326

• 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.

  Andrew Johnson

  Country, Jealous, Hypocrite

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