Quotes from Andrew Jackson

Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms.

This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.

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

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

I have always been afraid of banks.

To the victors belong the spoils.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe!

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

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 say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.

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

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

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.

From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.

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.

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.

If a warden sees cigarette litter being thrown from a car, they will take the number and trace the owner to send them a fine.

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

Desperate courage makes One a majority.

When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.

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.

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