Quotes By Andrew Jackson

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.