Andrew Jackson Quotes

When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

Elevate those guns a little lower.

I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.

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.

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.

When you get in debt you become a slave.

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.

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it.

Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.

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.

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.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

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

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

I have always been afraid of banks.