Quotes By Andrew Jackson

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

Elevate those guns a little lower.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

One man with courage makes a majority.

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

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.

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

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.

Disunion by force is treason.

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

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.