Andrew Jackson Quotes.
In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.
Disunion by force is treason.
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.
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.
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
Corporations have neither bodies to kick, nor souls to damn.
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.
Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
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.
When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
When you get in debt you become a slave.
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
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.
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.
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.
