Quotes About Andrew Jackson

#1. The United States of Andrew Jackson or George Washington is not the United States of Frederick Douglass or Sitting Bull. But we present our history from the perspective of the winners, from those in power

Chris Hedges

#2. [Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House

Ronald Reagan

#3. Andrew Jackson was the first one to think up the idea to promise everybody that if they will vote for you, you will give them an office when you get it, and the more times they vote for you, the bigger the office.

Will Rogers

#4. Indeed, in 1794, George Washington had not only authorized sending national troops into battle against Pennsylvanians resisting the whiskey tax, he had taken to the field to lead the forces himself. Later, Andrew Jackson had acted boldly to crush South Carolina's attempt to nullify the 1832 tariff.

Harold Holzer

#5. It was Andrew Jackson's motto, he reminded, that if you temporize, you are lost.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#6. Andrew Jackson was the implementer of the final solution for the Indigenous peoples east of the Mississippi. Andrew

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

#7. One man with courage is a majority. ~Andrew Jackson

Bob Ravener

#8. It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson ... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

Davy Crockett

#9. But as a war time president James Madison did not display dynamic leadership. Andrew Jackson acknowledged Madison " a great civilian," but declared " the mind of a philosopher could not dwell on blood and carnage with any composure," and judged his talents " not fitted for a stormy sea.

Andrew Jackson

#10. The funeral of Andrew Jackson at the Hermitage was flawed when his pet parrot had to be removed because it kept squawking out the profanity Jackson had taught the foul fowl.20

Craig Shirley

#11. According to Andrew Jackson Rogers, a New Jersey Democrat, "If you pass this bill you will allow the negroes of this country to compete for the high office of President of the United States" - no "civilized" country on earth gave rights to such "barbarians.

Elizabeth R. Varon

#12. Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.

Ron Fournier

#13. The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#14. On Andrew Jackson: His native strength compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reach; and the more cunning the individual might be, it served only to make him a sharper tool.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#15. More than a third of all the men, women, and children on this march perished from cold, starvation, and disease. Thanks to President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act, Cherokee land was left to white farmers who used it to grow cotton with slave labor and to mine gold.

Gloria Steinem

#16. George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House.

Jeff Greenfield

#17. Always take all the time to reflect that circumstances permit, but when the time for action has come, stop thinking. (Andrew Jackson)

Jon Meacham

#18. If we may say that the Age of Andrew Jackson took political life out of the hands of aristocrats and turned it over to the masses, then we may say, with equal justification, that the Age of Television has taken politics away from the adult mind altogether.

Neil Postman

#19. All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd;nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn't fair.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#20. If the Treasury Department should not remove Hamilton from the $10 bill, what should they do? The answer is fairly simple: Replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.

Eric Schneiderman

#21. For thirty-six of the forty years between 1800 and 1840, either Jefferson or a self-described adherent of his served as president of the United States: James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren.32 (John Quincy Adams, a one-term president, was the single exception.)

Jon Meacham

#22. Desperate courage makes One a majority.

Andrew Jackson

#23. All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

Andrew Jackson

#24. No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.

Andrew Jackson

#25. 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

#26. It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.

Andrew Jackson

#27. Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.

Andrew Jackson

#28. Toward the aborigines of the country no one can indulge a more friendly feeling than myself, or would go further in attempting to reclaim them from their wandering habits and make them a happy, prosperous people.

Andrew Jackson

#29. I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe.

Andrew Jackson

#30. 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.

Andrew Jackson

#31. I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I therefore protest against receiving any of that trash.

Andrew Jackson

#32. Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.

Andrew Jackson

#33. The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.

Andrew Jackson

#34. I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.

Andrew Jackson

#35. There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

Andrew Jackson

#36. Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue.

Andrew Jackson

#37. He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.

Andrew Jackson Downing

#38. Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven.

Andrew Jackson

#39. The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.

Andrew Jackson

#40. There are, perhaps, few men who can for any length of time enjoy office and power without being more or less under the influence of feelings unfavorable to the faithful discharge of their political duties.

Andrew Jackson

#41. Should I have Jackson bring Kat? Or is he going to pee on her leg or something crazy?"
I'm not going to pee on anyone." Andrew growled, and Mackenzie stepped aside and let him pass.

Moira Rogers

#42. You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.

Andrew Jackson

#43. [The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.

Andrew Jackson

#44. In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.

Andrew Jackson

#45. Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

Andrew Jackson

#46. The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.

Andrew Jackson

#47. 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.

Andrew Jackson

#48. 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.

Andrew Jackson

#49. Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim
At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have, perchance, in marble mockery a bust, Poised on a pedestal, above his sleeping dust.

Andrew Jackson Downing

#50. Disunion by force is treason.

Andrew Jackson

#51. 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.

Andrew Jackson

#52. War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

Andrew Jackson

#53. Forgoing outright atrocity, of which there is so much - too much - right now, aren't the 'life,'body,' and 'face' of Michael Jackson in the running for some of the most abstract events of the last century?

Andrew Durbin

#54. The Judas of the West has closed the contract and will receive the thirty pieces of silver ... Was there ever witnessed such a bare faced corruption in any country before?

Andrew Jackson

#55. The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.

Andrew Jackson

#56. I have only two regrets:
I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.

Andrew Jackson

#57. There are only two things I can't give up; one is coffee and the other is tobacco.

Andrew Jackson

#58. I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

Andrew Jackson

#59. His [the President's] earnest desire is, that you may perpetuated and preserved as a nation; and this he believes can only be doneand secured by your consent to remove to a country beyond the Mississippi ... Where you are, it is not possible you can live contented and happy.

Andrew Jackson

#60. I do not promise to believe tomorrow exactly what I believe today, and I do not believe today exactly what I believed yesterday. I expect to make, as I have made, some honest progress within every succeeding twenty-four hours.

Andrew Jackson

#61. 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.

Andrew Jackson

#62. I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

Andrew Jackson

#63. Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths, in the midst of the most innocent and social pleasures, founded on liberality, brotherly love and charity.

Andrew Jackson

#64. When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Andrew Jackson

#65. Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Andrew Jackson

#66. The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

Andrew Jackson

#67. 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 persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Andrew Jackson

#68. Do you wish to make of your enemy a friend? Then become a friend to your enemy.

Andrew Jackson Davis

#69. People are my religion/Because I believe in them.

Andrew Jackson

#70. Their object is disunion.

Andrew Jackson

#71. Too much praise cannot be bestowed on those who managed my artillery.

Andrew Jackson

#72. If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.

Andrew Jackson

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

Andrew Jackson

#74. 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.

Andrew Jackson

#75. I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.

Andrew Jackson

#76. This season has been full of rewards. The dinners and banquets just keep on coming. It's great. We want to carry it on as long as we can.

Andrew Jackson

#77. Temporize not! It is always injurious.

Andrew Jackson

#78. Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.

Andrew Jackson

#79. 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.

Andrew Jackson

#80. Perpetuity is stamped upon the Constitution by the blood of our fathers.

Andrew Jackson

#81. When I have Suffered sufficiently, the Lord will then take me to himself

Andrew Jackson

#82. I do not forget that I am a mechanic. I am proud to own it. Neither do I forget that the apostle Paul was a tentmaker; Socrates was a sculptor; and Archimedes was a mechanic.

Andrew Jackson

#83. I hope and trust to meet you in Heaven, both white and black-both white and black.

Andrew Jackson

#84. The President is the direct representative of the American people and is elected by the people and responsible to them.

Andrew Jackson

#85. Be good children, and we shall all meet in Heaven. I want to meet you all, white and black, in Heaven. Our Federal Union! It must be preserved! [Toast at a celebration of Thomas Jefferson's birthday, April 13 1830]

Andrew Jackson

#86. There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.

Andrew Jackson

#87. The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.

Andrew Jackson

#88. I was born for the storm, and a calm does not suit me.

Andrew Jackson

#89. From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.

Andrew Jackson

#90. I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

Andrew Jackson

#91. In an era when gay men like Beatles' manager Brian Epstein paid a fortune in blackmail to hustlers to keep their secrets safe, Andy Warhol took everything he was told to keep hidden and threw it right back in society's face.

Andrew Grant Jackson

#92. Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

Andrew Jackson

#93. Plant spacious parks in your cities, and loose their gates as wide as the morning, to the whole people.

Andrew Jackson Downing

#94. 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.

Andrew Jackson

#95. With a writer's eye, Irving detected Jackson's depths. As his admirers say, he is truly an old Roman-to which I would add, with a little dash of the Greek; for I suspect he is as knowing as I believe he is honest.

Jon Meacham

#96. The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe

Andrew Jackson

#97. You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.

Andrew Jackson

#98. Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.

Andrew Jackson

#99. This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.

Andrew Jackson

#100. Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

Andrew Jackson