“When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” – Andrew Jackson
50 Andrew Jackson Quotes
- “One man with courage makes a majority.”
2. “It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.”
3. “Desperate courage makes One a majority.”
4. “When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”
5. “It is a damn poor mind indeed which can’t think of at least two ways to spell any word.”
6. “No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.”
7. “Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.”
8. “Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.”
9. “It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.”
10. “War is a blessing compared with national degradation.”
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11. “There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.”
12. “I was born for the storm, and a calm does not suit me.”
13. “When you get in debt you become a slave.”
14. “Fun is having lots to do and not doing it.”
15. “You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.”
16. “Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted. “
17. “Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.”
18. “I say to you, never involve yourself in debt, and become no man’s surety.”
19. “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.”
20. “Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.”
21. “War is a blessing compared with national degradation.”
22. “The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.”
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23. “If Congress has the right under the constitution to issue paper money, it was given to them to be used by themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.”
24. “You must look to and provide for all possible contingencies.”
25. “The Constitution and the laws are supreme, and the Union indissoluble.”
26. “The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.”
27. “I have always been afraid of banks.”
28. “I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe.”
29. “Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.”
30. “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.”
31. “There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.”
32. “This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.”
33. “In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.”
34. “There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union.”
35. “The President is the direct representative of the American people and is elected by the people and responsible to them.”
36. “The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.”
37. “Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.”
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38. “Every man is equally entitled to protection by law.”
39. “But you must remember, my fellow citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty.”
40. “When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.”
41. “I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.”
42. “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.”
43. “The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.”
44. “Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.”
45. “Disunion by force is treason.”
46. “Perpetuity is stamped upon the Constitution by the blood of our fathers.”
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.”
48. “Men do not get up and do mischief, without there being someone in the head of it.”
49. “I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn’t have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.”
50. “Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.”
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The seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, served from 1829 to 1837. He was an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman. He died on June 8, 1845. Prior to being elected president, he served in both houses of Congress and gained notoriety as a general in the American Army. Jackson has drawn criticism for his racial policies, particularly how he treated Native Americans, despite being frequently praised as a champion for common people and for his work in upholding the union of states.