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“Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.”
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“Years later, a Jackson partisan (who wasn’t at Knoxville) said Jackson had praised the melodiousness of “Tennessee” as a word that had “as sweet a flavor on the tongue as hot corn-cakes and honey.”
― Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
― Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
― In Defense of Women
― In Defense of Women
“Louisiana is a delightful country, and though the climate too often proves fatal to a foreigner, yet generally we ascribe to the climate what is the effect of our imprudence. I have been severely attacked this summer, and had nearly died, but at length I am acclimated.” The author of these words was John Windship, a Bostonian who migrated to Louisiana not long after his graduation from Harvard in 1809.”
― Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
― Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
Philip Clum’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Philip Clum’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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