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Andrew Jackson Quotes


The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.

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

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

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

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.

To the victors belong the spoils.

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.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

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.

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