"No, gentlemen, if I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet."
— Andrew Johnson

January 1, 1970

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Presidents of the United StatesVice Presidents of the United StatesGovernors of TennesseePeople from RaleighPoliticians from Tennessee
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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 Lillian Foster.