Carolina QuotesLegislation 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 Carolinian
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Veto message to the House of Representatives (22 February 1869).
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- 1869
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