Andrew Johnson actually said...

"It reduces the whole population of the ten States--all persons, of every color, sex, and condition, and every stranger within their limits--to the most abject and degrading slavery."

"I have carefully examined the bill 'to regulate the tenure of certain civil offices.'"

"I am unable to give it my assent, for reasons so grave that I hope a statement of them may have some influence on the minds of the patriotic and enlightened men with whom the decision must ultimately ..."

"The power of removal was incident to that duty, and might often be requisite to fulfill it."