Quote#Homeland
This is your country as well as anybody else's country. This country…
Quote byAndrew Johnson · 1808–1875
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: To Union soldiers (1865), as quoted in Andrew Johnson: A Profile (1969), "Johnson and the Negro", by Lawanda Cox and John H. Cox; edited by Eric L. McKitrick, Hill & Wang, New York pp. 141..
English (original)
This is your country as well as anybody else's country. This country is founded upon the principle of equality. He that is meritorious and virtuous, intellectual and well informed, must stand highest, without regard to color.
— Andrew Johnson
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