Andrew Jackson Quotes

Andrew Jackson (52)

Birth:	15th March, 1767
Death:	8th June, 1845
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician, President, Soldier

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• The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.

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• I have always been afraid of banks.

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

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• It is a damn poor mind indeed which can’t think of at least two ways to spell any word.

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• One man with courage makes a majority.

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

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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 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.

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

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• I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.

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

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• In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.

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

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• To the victors belong the spoils.

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• No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

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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.

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• War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

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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.

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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.

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