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

  Andrew Jackson

  Bible, God, Religious

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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 bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.

  Andrew Jackson

  Fate, Government, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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

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

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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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• War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

  Andrew Jackson

  War, Blessing, Aggravation

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

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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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• I do not forget that I am a mechanic. I am proud to own it. Neither do I forget that the apostle Paul was a tentmaker; Socrates was a sculptor; and Archimedes was a mechanic.

  Andrew Jackson

  Proud, Forget, Apostle Paul

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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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• Desperate courage makes One a majority.

  Andrew Jackson

  Courage, Majority, Majority And Minority

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

  Andrew Jackson

  Marriage, Wife, Heaven

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

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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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• 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

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

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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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• 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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• To the victors belong the spoils.

  Andrew Jackson

  Military, Outlaw, Victor's

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

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• Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

  Andrew Jackson

  Mean, Debt, Wells

  Letter to his ward Andrew Jackson Hutchings, April 18, 1833.

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