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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

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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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As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of person and property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Andrew Jackson

Rights, Government, Long

Andrew Jackson, Harold D. Moser, Daniel Feller, Laura-Eve Moss (2007). “The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1829”, p.79, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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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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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

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

Andrew Jackson

Marriage, Wife, Heaven

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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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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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To the victors belong the spoils.

Andrew Jackson

Military, Outlaw, Victor's

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War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

Andrew Jackson

War, Blessing, Aggravation

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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.

Andrew Jackson

Blessing, Pay The Price, Addiction

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

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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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The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

Andrew Jackson

Government, People, Agents

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I have always been afraid of banks.

Andrew Jackson

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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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Born: March 15, 1767
Died: June 8, 1845
Occupation: 7th U.S. President
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