Andrew Jackson Quotes

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branc...

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

To the victors belong the spoils.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equab...

One man with courage makes a majority.

I have always been afraid of banks.

It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.

The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which th...

It is an infirmity of our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our re...

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

Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the enti...

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the U...

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all pol...

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

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

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

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as s...

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King...

There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the repub...

In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the jud...

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will...

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovere...

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corru...

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that ...

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid ec...