Quote#Wisdom
No, gentlemen, if I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way…
Quote byAndrew Johnson · 1808–1875
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: As military governor of Tennessee, asserting that he would walk alone, to friends who offered to escort him to the statehouse, after postings of a placard saying he should be "shot on sight." (c.1862); as quoted in Andrew Johnson, President of the United States: His Life and Speeches (1866) by Lilli.
English (original)
No, gentlemen, if I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.
— Andrew Johnson
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