Carolina QuotesYour 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.
Andrew Johnson Carolinian
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As quoted in Presidential Government in the United States: The Unwritten Constitution (1947) by Caleb Perry Patterson.
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- 1947
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