Free government Quote by Andrew Jackson

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

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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 of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining...and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find…

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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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