Andrew Johnson Quotes

As governor, I don't want my fair share. I want more than my fair share.

The classical case is that of the starving man who steals a loaf of bread. That he should be allowed to go free is understandable enough; but it is less understandable that 'society's' obligation not to let him starve should devolve upon one baker chosen at random and not on society as a whole.

While we try to amass wealth, make piles of money, get hold of the land as our real property, overtop one another in riches, we have palpably cast off justice, and lost the common good. I should like to know how any man can be just, who is deliberately aiming to get out of someone else what he wants for himself.

Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.

All some folks want is their fair share and yours.

You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.

People who take more than their share usually feel an inflated sense of entitlement.

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that people are more bad than good. That you know if you do something, it'll be seized by the rich to exploit the poor.

Fairness is a central issue, Greely said. What if some people have access to the technology and others don't? There will certainly be international disparities, and possibly national ones as well.

The purpose of the bill ... is to destroy all these discriminations.

Everyone thinks chiefly of his own, hardly ever of the public interest.

Who profits from this? Cui bono?

Abuse is getting people preferential treatment when they're not entitled to it. Getting them something they're entitled to, fighting for it, that's me, all the way.

Do equall Law and right to all the King's Subjects rich and poor.

If the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, He would have made them with mouths only and no hands.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

Our America is an America where human needs come before human greed.

The chief agent responsible for promoting the passions at the expense of justice turns out to be wealth.

The wealthiest in this country have never had it so good. They want more, and more, and more, and more, and they don’t care how many children they have to step on to get it..

The economy must provide justice as well as prosperity.