Andrew Jackson quotes was the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837) Born: 03/15/1767 Died: 06/08/1845 Country: usa

• Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. (Andrew Jackson) [/blood]
• The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger. (Andrew Jackson) [more/deserts/danger]
• One man with courage makes a majority. (Andrew Jackson) [courage/majority]
• The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. (Andrew Jackson) [wisdom/system/perfect/equality]
• Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. (Andrew Jackson) [take/time/time/action]
• You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. (Andrew Jackson) [price/wish]
• Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. (Andrew Jackson) [willpower/wife]
• Never take counsel of your fears. (Andrew Jackson) [take]
• 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 persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending. (Andrew Jackson) [government/people/willpower/property]
• There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. (Andrew Jackson) [government]
• 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. (Andrew Jackson)
• Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission. (Andrew Jackson) [perfect/people/perfect/mission]
• 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) [democracy/power/men]
• Disunion by force is treason. (Andrew Jackson) [treachery]
• Elevate those guns a little lower. (Andrew Jackson)
• 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. (Andrew Jackson) [power/support]
• 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/defense/protection]
• Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted. (Andrew Jackson) [fear/people/moment]
• I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life. (Andrew Jackson) [feelings/more/life]
• 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) [soul & body/king/feelings/]
• 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) [life]
• I have always been afraid of banks. (Andrew Jackson) [banks]
• 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. (Andrew Jackson) [day/corruption/people/promises]
• I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President. (Andrew Jackson) [office/military/president]
• I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment. (Andrew Jackson) [chance/moment]
• 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. (Andrew Jackson) [willpower/legislation/willpower]
• 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. (Andrew Jackson) [people/people/more/people]
• It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word. (Andrew Jackson) [mind/think]
• It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. (Andrew Jackson) [acts/government]
• 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. (Andrew Jackson) [government/power/president]
• Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit. (Andrew Jackson) [power/interest/paper/control]

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