Quotes from Andrew Jackson
Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
- Andrew Jackson
Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.
- Andrew Jackson
Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.
- Andrew Jackson
Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.
- Andrew Jackson
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
After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.
- Andrew Jackson
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
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
- Andrew Jackson
No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
- Andrew Jackson
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
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.
- Andrew Jackson
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