Andrew Jackson Quotes

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

You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.

I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.

When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

When you get in debt you become a slave.

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.

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

John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.

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

But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad... It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power.

The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it.

Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges—to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful— the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers, who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.

All who wish to hand down to their children that happy republican system bequeathed to them by their revolutionary fathers, must now take their stand against this consolidating, corrupting money power, and put it down, or their children will become hewers of wood and drawers of water to this aristocratic ragocracy.

Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.

The bank...is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!

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.

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.

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

There are only two things I can't give up; one is coffee and the other is tobacco.

In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people of the United States are to govern through representatives chosen by their unbiased suffrages or whether the money and power of a great corporation are to be secretly exerted to influence their judgment and control their decisions.

I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.

No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.

The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.