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. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
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. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
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… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage;… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
To extraordinary powers of labor, both mental and physical, he unites that tact and judgement which are requisite to the successful direction of such… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
