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" Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission. "
Andrew Jackson
People
Mission
Perfect
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" Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. "
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" Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. "
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" Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down. "
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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 and virtuous Judiciary. "
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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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" If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword. "
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" I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment. "
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" The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests. "
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" The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none. "
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" It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. "
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Selfish
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" War is a blessing compared with national degradation. "
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" Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted. "
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" 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 new motives for patriotic affection and support. "
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New
Happy
" 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. "
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Will
Better
" The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. "
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Wisdom
Perfect
" The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger. "
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Man
Worth
" I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office. "
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Day
" Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it. "
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Precious
Life
" In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges. "
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Independence
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" The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws. "
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Men
Body
" It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word. "
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Damn
Poor
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" There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. "
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Only
Necessary
" 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. "
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Action
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" Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me. "
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You
" I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it. "
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" 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. "
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" There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone. "
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" There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. "
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