Life Quotes by Andrew Jackson

9 Life quotes by Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson’s take on life comes across in eight brief lines, offering a straightforward glimpse of his stance. This compact collection is ideal for a quick read that still captures his core ideas.

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I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.

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I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation…

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I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of…

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Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes.…

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You must, to get through life well, practice industry with economy, never create a debt for anything that is not absolutely necessary,…

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When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich…

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The murderer only takes the life of the parent and leaves his character as a goodly heritage to his children, whilst the…

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Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing…

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There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my…

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Disunion by force is treason.

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

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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…

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Desperate courage makes One a majority.

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The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage;…

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“The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude…

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Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.

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Temporize not! It is always injurious.

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The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but…

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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…

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All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent…

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To extraordinary powers of labor, both mental and physical, he unites that tact and judgement which are requisite to the successful direction of such…

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