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" The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble. "
Andrew Jackson
Laws
Constitution
Supreme
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" War is a blessing compared with national degradation. "
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" The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests. "
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" I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life. "
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" To the victors belong the spoils. "
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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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Beginning
Government
" 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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" Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me. "
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Never
You
" Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission. "
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People
Mission
Perfect
" 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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Political
Power
" 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
Own
" 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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Good
Precious
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. "
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Right
Will
Better
" You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. "
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Blessing
Price
" The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. "
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Sovereign
Power
People
" I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment. "
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Shoes
Big
Moment
" 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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Worth
Constitution
" 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
" 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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Things
Sometimes
" 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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" 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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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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" 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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Intelligence
Great