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" 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. "
Andrew Jackson
Right
Will
Better
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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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" I have always been afraid of banks. "
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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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" Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted. "
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" The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble. "
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" There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. "
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" Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down. "
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" Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result. "
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Great
" No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody. "
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Blood
World
" The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. "
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Wisdom
Perfect
" 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
" 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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More
Independence
Good
" There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. "
Andrew Jackson
Doing
Pleasure
Nothing
" 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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Government
Simplicity
" 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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Business
Government
" 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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" Elevate those guns a little lower. "
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Guns
Elevate
" 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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Now
Battle
Sword
" 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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Power
Men
Free
" 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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" Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission. "
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People
Mission
Perfect
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" We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government. "
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