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• Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks.

  Andrew Jackson

  Army, Government, Law

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• Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.

  Andrew Jackson

  Mourning, Feelings, Language

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• Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms.

  Andrew Jackson

  War, May, Revolutionary

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.113

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• Their object is disunion.

  Andrew Jackson

  War, Civil War, Objects

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.119

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• I could not do otherwise without transcending the limits prescribed by the Constitution for the President and without feeling that I might in some degree disturb the security which religion nowadays enjoys in this country in its complete separation from the political concerns of the General Government.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Government, Political

  "A Subaltern's Furlough : Descriptive of Scenes in Various Parts of the United States, Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia during the Summer and Autumn of 1832" by Edward Thomas Coke, Ch. 9, p. 145, 1833.

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• Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven.

  Andrew Jackson

  Children, Heaven, Dying

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• Be good children, and we shall all meet in Heaven. I want to meet you all, white and black, in Heaven. Our Federal Union! It must be preserved! [Toast at a celebration of Thomas Jefferson's birthday, April 13 1830]

  Andrew Jackson

  Children, White, Heaven

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• I trust in due time to lay the perfidy, meanness, and wickedness of [Henry] Clay naked before the American people. I have lately got an intimation of some of his secret movements, which, if I can reach with positive and responsible proof, I will wield to his political, and perhaps his actual, destruction.

  Andrew Jackson

  People, Political, Secret

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• To extraordinary powers of labor, both mental and physical, he unites that tact and judgement which are requisite to the successful direction of such an office as that of Chief Magistrate of a free people.

  Andrew Jackson

  Successful, Office, People

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• I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe.

  Andrew Jackson

  Gambling, Finance, Wardrobe

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• Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue.

  Andrew Jackson

  Principles, Moral, Masonic

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• This season has been full of rewards. The dinners and banquets just keep on coming. It's great. We want to carry it on as long as we can.

  Andrew Jackson

  Long, Want, Dinner

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• It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to pay the aggrieved party may seize on the property belonging to the other, its citizens or subjects, sufficient to pay the debt without giving just cause of war.

  Andrew Jackson

  War, Party, Giving

  Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.286

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• I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.

  Andrew Jackson

  Regret, Feelings, Wish

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

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• From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.

  Andrew Jackson

  Anger, Inspire, Acting

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

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