Andrew Jackson Quotes

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

One man with courage makes a majority.

John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.

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

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges—to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful— the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers, who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.