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
The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.
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.
Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks.
I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.
The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.
This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.
Anne's work reaches a broad audience. She had a one-woman show in the Red Light District of San Francisco at the Shooting Gallery next to a park where they actually do shoot up. You can't predict where her art will go, just that it will.
Both Anne and her art are really interesting. She has one of those personalities that jumps in your face and you instantly like her. She led us to her painting: an original of three little birds with swollen eyes, and their tears were putting out a forest fire. I bought it immediately.
Oh, yeah. This is a very nice honor to be able to come here. Just the connection ... 150 years of senators ... this place has the original feel to it. It's not your everyday or your year-to-year. It's the state recognizing us. I don't think we could ever have imagined this.
We made a mistake, and you have to be responsible for your mistakes. If they feel the title shouldn't be here at Burke, then it shouldn't be here. I'm fine with that. You just have to go out there and do it all over again.
We wanted to be aggressive and physical on defense. We were very sharp.
No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
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.
I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.