58 Thought-Provoking Quotes By Andrew Jackson
When I have Suffered sufficiently, the Lord will then take me to himself
It's a darn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
Heaven will be heaven only if my wife is there.
Elevate those guns a little lower.
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.
John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.
The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.
The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.
I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.
I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.
It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.
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.
I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.
Marshall made his decision, now let him enforce it.
One man with courage makes a majority.
Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.
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.
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
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.
Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
To the victors belong the spoils.
Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.
Disunion by force is treason.
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.
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
