Andrew Jackson Quotes

Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.

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

No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.

Corporations have neither bodies to kick, nor souls to damn.

I do not forget that I am a mechanic. I am proud to own it. Neither do I forget that the apostle Paul was a tentmaker; Socrates was a sculptor; and Archimedes was a mechanic.

We must regain Texas, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

Desperate courage makes One a majority.

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

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.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue.

Do you wish to make of your enemy a friend? Then become a friend to your enemy.

Plant spacious parks in your cities, and loose their gates as wide as the morning, to the whole people.

He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.

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

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

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

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.

Temporize not! It is always injurious.

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

Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.

The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.

The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe

Heaven will be heaven only if my wife is there.

I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.

I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe.

Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven.

Fear not, too much, an open enemy; He is consistent--always at his post; But watchful be of him who holds the key Of your own heart, and flatters you the most.

I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets.

Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.

Disunion by force is treason.

Elevate those guns a little lower.

Perpetuity is stamped upon the Constitution by the blood of our fathers.

Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

My political enemies I can freely forgive; but as for who abused me when I was serving my country in the field, and those who attacked me for serving my country -- Doctor, that is a different case.

Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.

Their object is disunion.

This season has been full of rewards. The dinners and banquets just keep on coming. It's great. We want to carry it on as long as we can.

Jackson lead as he lived, sometimes with his heart, sometimes with his mind, sometimes with both.

Always take all the time to reflect that circumstances permit, but when the time for action has come, stop thinking. (Andrew Jackson)

Republics exist as long as the people "adhere to principles and virtue.

Politics was at once clinical and human, driven by principles and passions that he (the leader) had to master and harness for the good of the whole.

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

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

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

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.

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