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
My political enemies I can freely forgive; but as for who abused me when I was serving my country in the field, and those who attacked me for serving my country -- Doctor, that is a different case.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
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.
If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
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.
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
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.
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.