Quotes by Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

American president (7th)

Lived from: 1767 - 1845

Category: Politics Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 15 march 1767 Died: 8 june 1845

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  • It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
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  • It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
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  • Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
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  • Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
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  • Never take counsel of your fears.
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  • Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.
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  • One man with courage makes a majority.
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  • Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
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  • Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
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  • The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
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  • The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
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  • The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
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  • The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
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  • The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
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  • The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
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  • The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
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  • There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
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  • There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
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  • There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
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  • Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.
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