Quotes By Andrew Jackson

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Disunion by force is treason.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

To the victors belong the spoils.

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