34 Quotes By Andrew Jackson


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.
Andrew Jackson on men

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
Andrew Jackson on money

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

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
Andrew Jackson on power

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
Andrew Jackson on power

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
Andrew Jackson on power

The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.
Andrew Jackson on power

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
Andrew Jackson on power

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.
Andrew Jackson on power

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.
Andrew Jackson on power

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
Andrew Jackson on war

Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.
Andrew Jackson on war

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew Jackson on wisdom

One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson on courage