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 wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Desperate courage makes One a majority.
The decision of the Supreme court has fell still born, and they find that it cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate.
Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President.
While I concur with the Synod in the efficacy of prayer, and in the hope that our country may be preserved from the attacks of pestilence "and that the judgments now abroad in the earth may be sanctified to the nations," I am constrained to decline the designation of any period or mode as proper for the public manifestation of this reliance. I could not do otherwise without transcending the limits prescribed by the Constitution for the President and without feeling that I might in some degree disturb the security which religion nowadays enjoys in this country in its complete separation from the political concerns of the General Government.
John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!
Corporations have neither bodies to kick nor souls to damn.
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.
The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.
The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his Government, deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and friend to her foe.
Never take counsel of your fears.
No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.