Quotes By Andrew Jackson

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

One man with courage makes a majority.

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.

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

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

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.