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
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.
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
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.
The President is the direct representative of the American people and is elected by the people and responsible to them.
You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.
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.
Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
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.