Andrew Jackson > Quotes

“Gentlemen! I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out!”
― Andrew Jackson

“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth cannot be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy, and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages 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.”
― Andrew Jackson

“John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.”
― Andrew Jackson

“The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.”
― Andrew Jackson

“Elevate those guns a little lower.”
― Andrew Jackson

“I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.”
― Andrew Jackson

“It's a darn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.”
― Andrew Jackson

“When I have Suffered sufficiently, the Lord will then take me to himself”
― Andrew Jackson

“It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factions will be formed and liberty endangered. It is against such designs, whatever disguise the actors may assume, that you have especially to guard yourselves. You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. May He who holds in His hands the destinies of nations make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed and enable you, with pure hearts and pure hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time the great charge He has committed to your keeping.”
― Andrew Jackson

“Marshall made his decision, now let him enforce it.”
― Andrew Jackson

“Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves.”
― Andrew Jackson

“One man with courage makes a majority.”
― Andrew Jackson

“Heaven will be heaven only if my wife is there.”
― Andrew Jackson

“It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.”
― Andrew Jackson

“It is an infirmity of our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our reasoning powers, and attribute to the objects of our likes and dislikes qualities they do not possess and effects they can not produce.”
― Andrew Jackson

“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

“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

“Our Federal Union - It Must Be Preserved”
― Andrew Jackson

“If our liberty and republican form of government, procured for us by our revolutionary fathers, are worth the blood and treasure at which they were obtained, it is surely our duty to protect and defend them.”
― Andrew Jackson, Andrew Jackson, President of the United States of America

“Never for a moment believe that the great body of citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do wrong. They may, under the influence of temporary excitement or misguided opinions, commit mistakes; they may be misled for a time by the suggestions of self-interest; but in a community so enlightened and patriotic as the people of the United States argument will soon make them sensible of their errors, and when convinced they will be ready to repair them.”
― Andrew Jackson

“One man with courage makes a majority”
― Andrew Jackson

“How little common sense this man (Clay) displays…Oh, that mine enemy would write a book!... Silence would have been to him wisdom.”
― Andrew Jackson

“The Whirlpool galaxy beautifully displays its spiral nature while mysteriously hiding exactly how it spins the way it does.”
― Andrew Jackson, CK-12 21st Century Physics Flexbook