Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jacksonwas an American statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837. He was born near the end of the colonial era, somewhere near the then-unmarked border between North and South Carolina, into a recently immigrated Scots-Irish farming family of relatively modest means. During the American Revolutionary War, Jackson, whose family supported the revolutionary cause, acted as a courier. At age 13, he was captured and mistreated by the British army. He later...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth15 March 1767
CountryUnited States of America
No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.
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.
Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven.
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 person and property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending.
I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.
In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.
It will be my sincere and constant desire to observe toward the Indian tribes within our limits a just and liberal policy, and to give that humane and considerate attention to their rights and their wants which is consistent with the habits of our Government and the feelings of our people.
Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.
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
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people of the United States are to govern through representatives chosen by their unbiased suffrages or whether the money and power of a great corporation are to be secretly exerted to influence their judgment and control their decisions.
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
Disunion by force is treason.
The bank...is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!