CLASS

“If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.”

—ANDREW JOHNSON

“A gentleman and well-bred man will respect me; all others I will make do it.”

—ANDREW JOHNSON

“All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn’t fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd; nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn’t fair.”

—LYNDON B. JOHNSON