Citizens Quotes by Andrew Jackson

Disunion by force is treason.

— Andrew Jackson

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

— Andrew Jackson

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

Desperate courage makes One a majority.

— Andrew Jackson

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

“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

Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.

— Andrew Jackson

Temporize not! It is always injurious.

— Andrew Jackson

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

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

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

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

“Fun is having lots to do and not doing it.”

— Andrew Jackson

It is one of the serious evils of our present system of banking , that it enables one class of society - and that…

— Andrew Jackson

In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people,…

— Andrew Jackson