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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.

  Andrew Jackson

  Pregnancy, Power, Government

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.197

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• Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.

  Andrew Jackson

  Men, Trouble, Get Up

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• The Judas of the West has closed the contract and will receive the thirty pieces of silver. . . . Was there ever witnessed such a bare faced corruption in any country before?

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Pieces, West

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• If a warden sees cigarette litter being thrown from a car, they will take the number and trace the owner to send them a fine.

  Andrew Jackson

  Numbers, Car, Cigarette

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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 its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

  Andrew Jackson

  Life, Country, 4th Of July

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

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• Without union our independence and liberty would never have been achieved; without union they can never be maintained. Divided into twenty-four, or even a smaller number, of separate communities, we shall see our internal trade burdened with numberless restraints and exactions; communications between distant points and sections obstructed or cut off; our sons made soldiers to deluge with blood the fields they now till in peace...The loss of liberty, of all good government, of peace, plenty, and happiness, must inevitably follow a dissolution of the Union.

  Andrew Jackson

  Communication, Son, Cutting

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.148

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• Perpetuity is stamped upon the Constitution by the blood of our fathers.

  Andrew Jackson

  Father, Blood, Constitution

  Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1929). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: to April 30, 1814”

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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.

  Andrew Jackson

  Presidential, Soul, Depth

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

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• The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

  Andrew Jackson

  Strong, Hands, People

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

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• Elevate those guns a little lower.

  Andrew Jackson

  Patriotic, Gun, Littles

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

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• I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets.

  Andrew Jackson

  Pockets

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• Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.

  Andrew Jackson

  Heart, Hands, Atheism

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• It will be my sincere and constant desire to observe toward the Indian tribes within our limits a just and liberal policy, and to give that humane and considerate attention to their rights and their wants which is consistent with the habits of our Government and the feelings of our people.

  Andrew Jackson

  Rights, Government, People

  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.221, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Trusting as we did to the virtue of the people, the real people, not the politicians and demagogues, we passed through the most responsible and trying scenes, sustained by the bone and sinew of the nation, the laborers of the land, where alone, in these days of Bank rule, and ragocrat corruption, real virtue and love of liberty is to be found.

  Andrew Jackson

  Real, Land, People

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• I hope and trust to meet you in Heaven, both white and black-both white and black.

  Andrew Jackson

  Death, White, Heaven

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• 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.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Keys, Texas

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

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• Disunion by force is treason.

  Andrew Jackson

  Force, Treason

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

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• In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Men, People

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.11

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• You must, to get through life well, practice industry with economy, never create a debt for anything that is not absolutely necessary, and if you make a promise to pay money at a day certain, be sure to comply with it. If you do not, you lay yourself liable to have your feelings injured and your reputation destroyed with the just imputation of violating your word.

  Andrew Jackson

  Practice, Feelings, Promise

  Andrew Jackson's letter to Andrew Jackson, Jr., April 14, 1835.

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• The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Rights, Government

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

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• You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.

  Andrew Jackson

  Sailing, Uneasy

  In James Parton 'Life of Jackson' (1860) vol. 3, ch. 35

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• The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.

  Andrew Jackson

  Acting, May, Influence

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.237

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• I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

  Andrew Jackson

  Men, Debt

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

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• Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths, in the midst of the most innocent and social pleasures, founded on liberality, brotherly love and charity.

  Andrew Jackson

  Men, Order, Remembrance

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• Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.

  Andrew Jackson

  Government, Presidential, Improvement

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.2

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