Andrew Jackson Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Disunion by force is treason.

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

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.

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

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.

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.

Elevate those guns a little lower.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I have always been afraid of banks.

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.

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

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.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

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

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