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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. "
Andrew Jackson
Power
Men
Free
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" Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted. "
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" 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 with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit. "
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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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Nothing
Worth
Constitution
" There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. "
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Only
Necessary
" Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me. "
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Leaving
Never
You
" I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment. "
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Big
Moment
" 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
Spell
" I have always been afraid of banks. "
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Always
Banks
Been
" The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once. "
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Texas
Key
Safety
" 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 this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough. "
Andrew Jackson
Corruption
People
Power
" The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. "
Andrew Jackson
Man
Wisdom
Perfect
" 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. "
Andrew Jackson
Good
Government
People
" 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. "
Andrew Jackson
Fear
Intelligence
Great
" 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
" The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger. "
Andrew Jackson
Country
Man
Worth
" The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests. "
Andrew Jackson
Republic
Rests
Rock
" 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. "
Andrew Jackson
More
Independence
Good
" War is a blessing compared with national degradation. "
Andrew Jackson
War
Blessing
Compared
" 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. "
Andrew Jackson
Love
Men
Body
" 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
" I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President. "
Andrew Jackson
Office
I Am
Military
" Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. "
Andrew Jackson
Money
Political
Power
" It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. "
Andrew Jackson
Powerful
Selfish
Own
" Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. "
Andrew Jackson
Heaven
Wife
Meet
" 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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Power
New
Happy
" 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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Peace
Things
Sometimes
" To the victors belong the spoils. "
Andrew Jackson
Victors
Belong
Spoils
" Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down. "
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Means
Down
War
" 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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Own
Business
Government