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

  Andrew Jackson

  Bible, God, Religious

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• There are only two things I can't give up; one is coffee and the other is tobacco.

  Andrew Jackson

  Giving Up, Coffee, Two

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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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• Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.

  Andrew Jackson

  Promise, Scripture, Trouble

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• In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.

  Andrew Jackson

  Government, Quality, Demand

  Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1929). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: to April 30, 1814”

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• The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining, and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away.

  Andrew Jackson

  Spring, Government, Important

  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.366, New Leaf Publishing Group

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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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• Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. But when you get in debt you become a slave. Therefore I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

  Andrew Jackson

  Mean, Rainy Day, Men

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

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• Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

  Andrew Jackson

  Marriage, Wife, Heaven

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

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• In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people of the United States are to govern through representatives chosen by their unbiased suffrages or whether the money and power of a great corporation are to be secretly exerted to influence their judgment and control their decisions.

  Andrew Jackson

  People, Decision, Liberty

  United States. President (1829-1837 : Jackson), Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual Messages, Veto Messages, Proclamation, & C”, p.179

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• All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

  Andrew Jackson

  Independent, Rights, Citizens

  "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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• The President is the direct representative of the American people and is elected by the people and responsible to them.

  Andrew Jackson

  People, President, Responsible

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.269

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• War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

  Andrew Jackson

  War, Blessing, Aggravation

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

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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.

  Andrew Jackson

  Hands, Over You, Corporations

  Andrew Jackson (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren”, p.1525, Wildside Press LLC

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• Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

  Andrew Jackson

  Talent, Wealth, Institutions

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.244

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

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  Blessing, Pay The Price, Addiction

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

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• This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.

  Andrew Jackson

  War, Law, Evil

  Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1931). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: to April 30, 1814”

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• To the victors belong the spoils.

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  Military, Outlaw, Victor's

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

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• I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.

  Andrew Jackson

  Gun, Jugs, Cards

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• All who wish to hand down to their children that happy republican system bequeathed to them by their revolutionary fathers, must now take their stand against this consolidating, corrupting money power, and put it down, or their children will become hewers of wood and drawers of water to this aristocratic ragocracy.

  Andrew Jackson

  Money, Children, Father

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• If they [Mexicans] touch the hair of the head of one of our citizens, tell him [Commodore Dallas] to batter down and destroy their town and exterminate the inhabitants from the face of the earth!

  Andrew Jackson

  Hair, Dallas, Citizens

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• I have always been afraid of banks.

  Andrew Jackson

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

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