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Power Quotes by Andrew Jackson
- It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
- Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
- Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments
- Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations…
- It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President…
- The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
- The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and…
- From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed…
- Freemasonry is an ancient and respectable institution, embracing individuals of every nation, of every religion, and of every condition in life. Wealth, power and talents…
- In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people of the United States are to govern through representatives chosen by…
- I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted…
- 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…
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