Quotes from Andrew Jackson

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.

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.

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

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

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.

Every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add… artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers—who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.

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

Disunion by force is treason.

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

The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.

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

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.