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Andrew Jackson

1767 AD — 1845 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Toast given on the Jefferson Birthday Celebration in 1830
Life of Jackson (Parton)
Marriage · anthology attribution: Andrew Jackson
Peace · anthology attribution: Andrew Jackson

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01c. 1806 AD

Our Federal Union: it must be preserved.

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02c. 1806 AD

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.

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03Undated

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

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04Undated

Peace, above all things, is to be desired; but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

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05Undated

It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.

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06Undated

The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining...and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away….

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07Undated

One man with courage makes a majority.

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08Undated

It is an infirmity of our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our reasoning powers, and attribute to the objects of our likes and dislikes qualities they do not possess and effects they can not produce.

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09Undated

I have always been afraid of banks.

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10Undated

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

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11Undated

There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.

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12Undated

To the victors belong the spoils.

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13Undated

Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.

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14Undated

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

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15Undated

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

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16Undated

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.

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17Undated

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.

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18Undated

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 is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

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19Undated

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.

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20Undated

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

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21Undated

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.

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22Undated

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

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23Undated

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

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24Undated

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.

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