QUOTES by Andrew Jackson
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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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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.
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The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
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Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
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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.
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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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Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
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I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.
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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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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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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.
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The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
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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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If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
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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.
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It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
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Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.
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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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There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
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