Andrew Jackson quotes - page 3

Gentleman, I have had men watching you for a long time, and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the bread-stuffs 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, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to route you out! (Andrew Jackson)
The decision of the Supreme court has fell still born, and they find that it cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate. View quote
Andrew Jackson
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! View quote
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You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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That book Bible, sir, is the rock on which our republic rests. View quote
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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. View quote
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Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. View quote
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The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law. View quote
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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. (Andrew Jackson)
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. View quote
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If a warden sees cigarette litter being thrown from a car, they will take the number and trace the owner to send them a fine. View quote
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Oh, do not cry be good children and we will all meet in heaven. View quote
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Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars. View quote
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But if they have other power to regulate the currency, it was conferred to be exercised by themselves, and not to be transferred to a corporation. View quote
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To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. View quote
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As Americans, your country looks with confidence on her adopted children, for a valorous support, as a faithful return for the advantages enjoyed under her mild and equitable government. View quote
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I am constrained to decline the designation of any period or mode as proper for the public manifestation of this reliance. I could not do otherwise without transcending the limits prescribed by the Constitution for the President and without feeling that I might in some degree disturb the security which religion nowadays enjoys in this country in its complete separation from the political concerns of the General Government. (Andrew Jackson)
It is maintained by some that the bank is a means of executing the constitutional power "to coin money and regulate the value thereof.”. View quote
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I killed the bank. View quote
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There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. View quote
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I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment. View quote
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