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" Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me. "
Andrew Jackson
Leaving
Never
You
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" I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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
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" It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word. "
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Poor
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" 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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" To the victors belong the spoils. "
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Victors
Belong
Spoils
" Elevate those guns a little lower. "
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Lower
Guns
Elevate
" 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
" 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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Currency
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" War is a blessing compared with national degradation. "
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War
Blessing
Compared
" 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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Powerful
Selfish
Own
" 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
" 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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Determination
Beginning
Government
" 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. "
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People
Power
" The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. "
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Power
People
" Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted. "
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Fear
May
Cannot
" Disunion by force is treason. "
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Force
Treason
" 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
" 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. "
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You
Control
End
" 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
" 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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Right
Will
Better
" There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. "
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Doing
Pleasure
Nothing
" I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life. "
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Life
" 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
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Banks
Been
" 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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Separation
View
" 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. "
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President