Andrew Johnson
The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people."
As quoted in Andrew Johnson, Plebeian and Patriot (1928) by Robert Watson Winston
"Your 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."
As quoted in Presidential Government in the United States: The Unwritten Constitution (1947) by Caleb Perry Patterson
