Andrew Jackson Quotes

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• You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.

  Andrew Jackson

  Morning, Nwo, People

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• It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

  Andrew Jackson

  Powerful, Selfish, Patriotic

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

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  I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.

  Andrew Jackson

  Storm, Doe, Suits

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• When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

  Andrew Jackson

  Time, Procrastination, Thinking

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

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• After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

  Andrew Jackson

  Regret, Eight, Government

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  When you get in debt you become a slave.

  Andrew Jackson

  Debt, Slave

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

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• Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

  Andrew Jackson

  Peace, Patriotic, Blood

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

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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.

  Andrew Jackson

  Believe, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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

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• John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.

  Andrew Jackson

  Body, Nations, Your Body

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  There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

  Andrew Jackson

  Patriotic, Government, Evil

  Veto Message on Bank Bill, 10 July 1832

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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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• But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

  Andrew Jackson

  Freedom, Military, Blessing

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

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• From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad... It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power.

  Andrew Jackson

  Ambition, Government, People

  "Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren".

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• The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it.

  Andrew Jackson

  Decision, Made, Court

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• Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges—to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful— the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers, who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.

  Andrew Jackson

  Powerful, Mean, Humble

  Veto Message on Bank Bill, 10 July 1832

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

  Andrew Jackson

  People, Perfect, Missions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The bank...is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!

  Andrew Jackson

  Trying, Kill Me

  "Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837, seeking to act as the direct representative of the common man". "The Presidents of the United States of America" by Frank Freidel and Hugh Sidey, www.whitehouse.gov. 2006.

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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.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Patriotic, Successful

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

  Andrew Jackson

  Government, People, Agents

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.

  Andrew Jackson

  Humble, Law, Arms

  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.168, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.

  Andrew Jackson

  Wisdom, Country, Believe

  Andrew Jackson, Sam B. Smith, Harriet Fason Chappell Owsley, Harold D. Moser (1996). “The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1821-1824”, p.399, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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

  Andrew Jackson

  Bible, God, Religious

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• The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Courage, Military

  Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1937). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: to April 30, 1814”

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