Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jacksonwas an American statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837. He was born near the end of the colonial era, somewhere near the then-unmarked border between North and South Carolina, into a recently immigrated Scots-Irish farming family of relatively modest means. During the American Revolutionary War, Jackson, whose family supported the revolutionary cause, acted as a courier. At age 13, he was captured and mistreated by the British army. He later...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth15 March 1767
CountryUnited States of America
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 was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.
I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe.
In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.
From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear dangers from abroad ... It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power - that factions will be formed and liberty endangered ...
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
If a warden sees cigarette litter being thrown from a car, they will take the number and trace the owner to send them a fine.
You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.
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.
The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.
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 its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.
It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.