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" It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word. "
Andrew Jackson
Damn
Poor
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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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" Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. "
Andrew Jackson
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Things
Sometimes
" 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. "
Andrew Jackson
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New
Happy
" It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. "
Andrew Jackson
Practice
Government
President
" The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. "
Andrew Jackson
Man
Wisdom
Perfect
" 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
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" Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. "
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Take
Action
Go
" I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life. "
Andrew Jackson
Soul
Feel
Life
" Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations. "
Andrew Jackson
You
Control
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" There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. "
Andrew Jackson
Exist
Only
Necessary
" 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. "
Andrew Jackson
Nothing
Separation
View
" 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. "
Andrew Jackson
Power
Currency
Control
" 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
" Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down. "
Andrew Jackson
Means
Down
War
" 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
" Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me. "
Andrew Jackson
Leaving
Never
You
" Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. "
Andrew Jackson
Heaven
Wife
Meet
" 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. "
Andrew Jackson
Determination
Beginning
Government
" To the victors belong the spoils. "
Andrew Jackson
Victors
Belong
Spoils
" I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life. "
Andrew Jackson
I Am
My Life
Life
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Andrew Jackson
Body
Government
Simplicity
" 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
" I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment. "
Andrew Jackson
Shoes
Big
Moment
" 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
" 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. "
Andrew Jackson
Nothing
Worth
Constitution
" 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
" 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. "
Andrew Jackson
Politics
Corruption
Day
" 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