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• Temporize not! It is always injurious.

  Andrew Jackson

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• I not only rejoice, but congratulate my beloved country Texas is reannexed, and the safety, prosperity, and the greatest interest of the whole Union is secured by this great and important national act.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Texas, Safety

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• The murderer only takes the life of the parent and leaves his character as a goodly heritage to his children, whilst the slanderer takes away his goodly reputation and leaves him a living monument to his children's disgrace.

  Andrew Jackson

  Children, Character, Parent

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• Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils in its train that they might reign & ride on its whirlwinds & direct the Storm The free people of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, War, Fate

  Letter to Andrew I. Crawford, May 1, 1833.

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• 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.

  Andrew Jackson

  Views, Ideas, Liberty

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

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• I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

  Andrew Jackson

  Regret, Military, Office

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

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• 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.

  Andrew Jackson

  Kings, Government, Simplicity

  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.371, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Freemasonry is an institution calculated to benefit mankind.

  Andrew Jackson

  Benefits, Masonic, Masons

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• Too much praise cannot be bestowed on those who managed my artillery.

  Andrew Jackson

  Military, Too Much, Praise

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

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• The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

  Andrew Jackson

  Law, Unions, Constitution

  Andrew Jackson, John F. Brown, William White (1837). “Messages of Gen. Andrew Jackson: with a short sketch of his life”, p.245

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• I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Virtue, Found

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• What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Art, Men

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.60

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• Heaven will be heaven only if my wife is there.

  Andrew Jackson

  Wife, Heaven, My Wife

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• The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.

  Andrew Jackson

  Hydra, Corruption, Investigation

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• It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will have been accomplished by measures equally advantageous to the Indians. What the native savages become when surrounded by a dense population and by mixing with the whites may be seen in the miserable remnants of a few Eastern tribes, deprived of political and civil rights, forbidden to make contracts, and subjected to guardians, dragging out a wretched existence, without excitement, without hope, and almost without thought.

  Andrew Jackson

  Rights, Political, Unions

  United States. President (1829-1837 : Jackson), Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual Messages, Veto Messages, Proclamation, & C”, p.80

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• My political enemies I can freely forgive; but as for who abused me when I was serving my country in the field, and those who attacked me for serving my country -- Doctor, that is a different case.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Doctors, Political

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• After a harassing warfare, prolonged by the nature of the country and by the difficulty of procuring subsistence, the Indians were entirely defeated, and the disaffected band dispersed or destroyed. The result has been creditable to the troops engaged in the service. Severe as is the lesson to the Indians, it was rendered necessary by their unprovoked aggressions, and it is to be hoped that its impression will be permanent and salutary.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Band, Lessons

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• Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever names they might pass and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the central power.

  Andrew Jackson

  Money, Power, Government

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• 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.

  Andrew Jackson

  Determination, Real, Government

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.178

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• Being satisfied, from observation and experience, as well as from medical testimony, that ardent spirit as a drink is not only needless but hurtful; and that the entire disuse of it would tend to promote the health, the virtue, and the happiness of the community, we hereby express our convention that should the citizens of the United States, and especially ALL YOUNG MEN, discontinue entirely the use of it, they would not only promote their own personal benefit, but the good of our country and the world.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Men, Community

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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.

  Andrew Jackson

  Blessing, Men, Race

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe.

  Andrew Jackson

  Gambling, Finance, Wardrobe

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• I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.

  Andrew Jackson

  Law, Principles, United States

  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.266, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Toward the aborigines of the country no one can indulge a more friendly feeling than myself, or would go further in attempting to reclaim them from their wandering habits and make them a happy, prosperous people.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, People, Feelings

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.59

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• His [the President's] earnest desire is, that you may perpetuated and preserved as a nation; and this he believes can only be doneand secured by your consent to remove to a country beyond the Mississippi.... Where you are, it is not possible you can live contented and happy.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Believe, Desire

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