Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
- Andrew Jackson Quote

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.
- Andrew Jackson Quote

Disunion by force is treason.
- Andrew Jackson Quote

Elevate those guns a little lower.
- Andrew Jackson Quote

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
- Andrew Jackson Quote

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

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

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.
- Andrew Jackson Quote

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.
- Andrew Jackson Quote

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

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

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.
- Andrew Jackson Quote

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
- Andrew Jackson Quote

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.
- Andrew Jackson Quote

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.
- Andrew Jackson Quote

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

Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson Quote

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
- Andrew Jackson Quote

Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.
- Andrew Jackson Quote

One man with courage makes a majority.
- Andrew Jackson Quote

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.
- Andrew Jackson Quote

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.
- Andrew Jackson Quote

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

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.
- Andrew Jackson Quote

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
- Andrew Jackson Quote

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.
- Andrew Jackson Quote

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

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.
- Andrew Jackson Quote

To the victors belong the spoils.
- Andrew Jackson Quote

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.
- Andrew Jackson Quote

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
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You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
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