Andrew Jackson Quotes

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.

John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!

Gentlemen! I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out!

Corporations have neither bodies to kick nor souls to damn.

John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!

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

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

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

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 is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

Oh, do not cry. Be good children, and we shall all meet in Heaven ... I want to meet you all, white and black, in Heaven.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Our Federal Union! It must be preserved!

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the Government, the sovereign power.

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.

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.