Andrew Jackson Quotes

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Andrew Jackson

Profession : President

Birth : March 15, 1767

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

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I have always been afraid of banks.

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Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

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Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

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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.

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There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

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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.

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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.

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Elevate those guns a little lower.

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The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.

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I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.

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To the victors belong the spoils.

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Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.

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Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.

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

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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.

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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.

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I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.

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War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

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

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