Andrew Jackson Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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