Quotes By Andrew Jackson

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.

I have always been afraid of banks.

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

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.

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 entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

Elevate those guns a little lower.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

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

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.

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.

Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.

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 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.

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.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

Disunion by force is treason.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.