I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.

Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.

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.

The enactment of the Homestead Act would create the strongest tie between the citizen and the Government-he would with cheerfulness contribute his proportionable part of the taxes to defray the expenses of the political system under which he lived.

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

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.