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" 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. "

Andrew Jackson

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Safety

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody. "

" The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble. "

" It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word. "

" I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. "

" War is a blessing compared with national degradation. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. "

" The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. "

" 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. "

" I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President. "

" 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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" Disunion by force is treason. "

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