Andrew Johnson National

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    Saint Andrews crosse, that is his guide;
    —Unknown. Sir Andrew Barton. . .

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    Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to benumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
    Ida M. Tarbell (1857–1944)