Quotes from Andrew Jackson

Our Union: It must be preserved.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.

The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.

I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.

It's a darn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Elevate those guns a little lower.

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

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.

I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.

When I have Suffered sufficiently, the Lord will then take me to himself

Marshall made his decision, now let him enforce it.

Heaven will be heaven only if my wife is there.

One man with courage makes a majority.

It is an infirmity of our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our reasoning powers, and attribute to the objects of our likes and dislikes qualities they do not possess and effects they can not produce.

It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.

But as a war time president James Madison did not display dynamic leadership. Andrew Jackson acknowledged Madison " a great civilian," but declared " the mind of a philosopher could not dwell on blood and carnage with any composure," and judged his talents " not fitted for a stormy sea.

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

If our liberty and republican form of government, procured for us by our revolutionary fathers, are worth the blood and treasure at which they were obtained, it is surely our duty to protect and defend them.

How little common sense this man (Clay) displays…Oh, that mine enemy would write a book!... Silence would have been to him wisdom.

Never for a moment believe that the great body of citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do wrong. They may, under the influence of temporary excitement or misguided opinions, commit mistakes; they may be misled for a time by the suggestions of self-interest; but in a community so enlightened and patriotic as the people of the United States argument will soon make them sensible of their errors, and when convinced they will be ready to repair them.

The Whirlpool galaxy beautifully displays its spiral nature while mysteriously hiding exactly how it spins the way it does.