Andrew Jackson Quotes

• 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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• The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.

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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 Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

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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 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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• 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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• To the victors belong the spoils.

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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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• War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

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• We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

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• You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

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• Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.

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• One man with courage makes a majority.

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• Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.

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• No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

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Andrew Jackson (52)

Birth:	15th March, 1767
Death:	8th June, 1845
Nationality:	American
Profession:	President

About

Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States. Born in what is now the border between North and South Carolina, Jackson served in the militia during the American Revolutionary War. After the war, he returned home to serve as a country lawyer, and in 1796 played a role in the founding of the state of Tennessee. Subsequently elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and then to the U. S. Senate, Jackson was in 1801 appointed colonel in the Tennessee Militia. Jackson received a sporadic education in the local "old-field" school. In 1781, he worked for a time in a saddle-maker's shop. Later, he taught school and studied law in Salisbury, North Carolina.

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