Quotes By Andrew Jackson

Disunion by force is treason.

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

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

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.

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.

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.

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

To the victors belong the spoils.

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

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I have always been afraid of banks.