198 Quotes by 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.

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

All who wish to hand down to their children that happy republican system bequeathed to them by their revolutionary fathers, must now take their stand against this consolidating, corrupting money power, and put it down, or their children will become hewers of wood and drawers of water to this aristocratic ragocracy.

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

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

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.

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.

Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.