Achieved Quote by Elliott Abrams

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has…

— Ron Fournier

“Jackson was a transformative president in part because he had a transcendent personality; other presidents who followed him were not transformative, and served unremarkably.”

— Jon Meacham

“History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.” Gerald R. Ford, thirty-eighth…

— Max Allan Collins

“Despite a legacy consisting of enough violence and death for twenty men, Jackson admitted to having two regrets on his deathbed: “I didn’t shoot…

— Daniel O'Brien

[Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House

— Ronald Reagan

After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson,…

— Nancy Gibbs

“The United States of Andrew Jackson or George Washington is not the United States of Frederick Douglass or Sitting Bull. But we present our…

— Chris Hedges

When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.

— Erich Leinsdorf

I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.

— D. B. Sweeney

“It’s not that Jackson had a “dark side,” as his apologists rationalize and which all human beings have, but rather that Jackson was the…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Andrew Jackson was the first one to think up the idea to promise everybody that if they will vote for you, you will give…

— Will Rogers

Andrew Johnson wasn't too bad, but he was overwhelmed by a hostile Congress.

— Harry S. Truman