Andrew Jackson Quotes about War

This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.

This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.

Andrew Jackson

War, Law, Evil

Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1931). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: to April 30, 1814”

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

Andrew Jackson

War, Blessing, Aggravation

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Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils in its train that they might reign & ride on its whirlwinds & direct the Storm The free people of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom.

Andrew Jackson

Country, War, Fate

Letter to Andrew I. Crawford, May 1, 1833.

Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms.

Andrew Jackson

War, May, Revolutionary

Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.113

Their object is disunion.

Andrew Jackson

War, Civil War, Objects

Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.119

It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to pay the aggrieved party may seize on the property belonging to the other, its citizens or subjects, sufficient to pay the debt without giving just cause of war.

Andrew Jackson

War, Party, Giving

Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.286