Popular Motivational & Inspirational Quotes by Andrew jackson
The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
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.
There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
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.
I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.
The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.
The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
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.
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.
