Vice President Quotes

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
To the victors belong the spoils.
Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.
War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.
I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
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.
If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.
If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
Legislation 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.
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.
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