Andrew Jackson Quotes

Quote #1

“I have always been afraid of banks.”

Quote #2

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

Quote #3

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

Quote #4

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

Quote #5

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

Quote #6

“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.”

 Quote #7

“I have always believed that technology should do the hard work – discovery, organization, communication – so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.”

Quote #8

“Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.”

Quote #9

“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."

Quote #10

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

Quote #11

“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.”

Quote #12

“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."

Quote #13

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

 Quote #14

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

Quote #15

“As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending."

Quote #16

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

Quote #17

“Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.”

Quote #18

“The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.”

Quote #19

“You don’t need to have a 100 person company to develop that idea.”

Quote #20

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

 Quote #21

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

Quote #22

“To the victors belong the spoils."

Quote #23

“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.”

 Quote #24

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

Quote #25

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

Quote #26

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

Quote #27

“The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.”

Quote #28

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

Quote #29

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

Quote #31

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

Quote #32

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

Quote #34

“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.”

Quote #35

“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.”

Quote #36

“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.”

Quote #37

“I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.”

Quote #38

“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.”

Quote #39

“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.”

Quote #40

“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.”

Quote #41

“If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.”

Quote #42

“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.”

Quote #43

“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.”

Quote #44

“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.”

Quote #45

“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.”

Quote #46

"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."

Quote #47

"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.”

Quote #48

“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth cannot be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy, and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers—who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their Government.”

Quote #49

“Gentlemen! I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out!”

Quote #50

“It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factions will be formed and liberty endangered. It is against such designs, whatever disguise the actors may assume, that you have especially to guard yourselves. You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. May He who holds in His hands the destinies of nations make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed and enable you, with pure hearts and pure hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time the great charge He has committed to your keeping.”

Quote #51

“When I have Suffered sufficiently, the Lord will then take me to himself.”

Quote #52

“Marshall made his decision, now let him enforce it.”

Quote #53

“Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves.”

Quote #54

“One man with courage makes a majority."

Quote #55

“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.”

Quote #56

“Our Federal Union - It Must Be Preserved."

Quote #57

“Never for a moment believe that the great body of citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do wrong. They may, under the influence of temporary excitement or misguided opinions, commit mistakes; they may be misled for a time by the suggestions of self-interest; but in a community so enlightened and patriotic as the people of the United States argument will soon make them sensible of their errors, and when convinced they will be ready to repair them.”

Quote #58

“The Whirlpool galaxy beautifully displays its spiral nature while mysteriously hiding exactly how it spins the way it does."