Quotes by Andrew Jackson

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission."

"Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations."

"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."

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

"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."

"I have always been afraid of banks."

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

"I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment."

"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 its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it."

"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."

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

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

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

"War is a blessing compared with national degradation."