Andrew Jackson (1767 – 1845)
Seventh President of the United States (1829-1837), hero of the Battle of New Orleans (1815), a founder of the Democratic Party, and the eponym of the era of Jacksonian democracy.
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.
John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
That book [the Bible], Sir, is the Rock upon which our republic rests. This quote first appears in “Halley’s Bible Handbook” (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1927, 1965), p. 18. Eighty two years after Andrew Jackson's death.
It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
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.
But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
He told his friends that he purposed washing his hands utterly of public life and political affairs; that he had now been to all intents and purposes a public servant from the age of thirteen to that of threescore and ten ... that he had lived his whole life in plain sight of the public and the people, hiding nothing, simulating nothing, confessing nothing, extenuating nothing and regretting nothing — except that he could never get a chance to shoot Clay or hang Calhoun.
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.
Our Federal Union! It must be preserved!
Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils in its train that they might reign & ride on its whirlwinds & direct the Storm — The free people of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom.