Andrew Jackson's Quotes

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

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

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

Elevate those guns a little lower.

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

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.

I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

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

Disunion by force is treason.

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.

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

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

To the victors belong the spoils.

In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

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.