Andrew Jackson Quotes

I have always been afraid of banks.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

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

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.

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

If Congress has the right under the constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to be used by themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.

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 person and of property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.

I was born for the storm, and a calm does not suit me.

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

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils in its train that they might reign & ride on its whirlwinds & direct the Storm — The free people of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom.

Our Federal Union! It must be preserved!