Andrew Jackson Quotes

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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.

  Andrew Jackson

  Powerful, Selfish, Patriotic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.

  Andrew Jackson

  Morning, Nwo, People

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  I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.

  Andrew Jackson

  Storm, Doe, Suits

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• After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

  Andrew Jackson

  Regret, Eight, Government

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• When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

  Andrew Jackson

  Time, Procrastination, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  When you get in debt you become a slave.

  Andrew Jackson

  Debt, Slave

  Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1931). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: 1833-1838”

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• Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

  Andrew Jackson

  Believe, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Andrew Jackson

  Peace, Patriotic, Blood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.

  Andrew Jackson

  Body, Nations, Your Body

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• From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad... It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power.

  Andrew Jackson

  Ambition, Government, People

  "Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren".

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  There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

  Andrew Jackson

  Patriotic, Government, Evil

  Veto Message on Bank Bill, 10 July 1832

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• But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

  Andrew Jackson

  Freedom, Military, Blessing

  Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.436

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• Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges—to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful— the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers, who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.

  Andrew Jackson

  Powerful, Mean, Humble

  Veto Message on Bank Bill, 10 July 1832

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• The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it.

  Andrew Jackson

  Decision, Made, Court

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• The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.

  Andrew Jackson

  Humble, Law, Arms

  John Stilwell Jenkins, Andrew Jackson (2011). “Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers”, p.168, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Patriotic, Successful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.

  Andrew Jackson

  Government, People, Liberty

  Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.431

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• [The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.

  Andrew Jackson

  Bible, God, Religious

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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.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Men, Law

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.

  Andrew Jackson

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Mom

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• I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.

  Andrew Jackson

  Wisdom, Country, Believe

  Andrew Jackson, Sam B. Smith, Harriet Fason Chappell Owsley, Harold D. Moser (1996). “The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1821-1824”, p.399, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No -- we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.

  Andrew Jackson

  Military, Fighting, Son

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• The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.

  Andrew Jackson

  Fate, Government, People

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• I do not promise to believe tomorrow exactly what I believe today, and I do not believe today exactly what I believed yesterday. I expect to make, as I have made, some honest progress within every succeeding twenty-four hours.

  Andrew Jackson

  Believe, Yesterday, Promise

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• Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe!

  Andrew Jackson

  Men, Giving, Thousand

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