Quotes By Andrew Jackson

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.

One man with courage makes a majority.

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

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.

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

Disunion by force is treason.

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.

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

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.

Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

To the victors belong the spoils.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.

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.

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

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