198 Quotes by Andrew Jackson

"It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes."

"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."

"The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none."

"I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets."

"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."

"We must regain Texas, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must."

"I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment."

"What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute."

"Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms."

"In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another."