A biography for Andrew Jacksonhasn’t been written yet.
“הבנק מנסה להרוג אותי, אבל אני אהרוג אותו!”
“רבים מעשירי ארצנו עדיין לא משלימים עם עיקרון שוויון הזכויות, ומפצירים בנו לעשות אותם עשירים עוד יותר באמצעות הצעת חוק.”
“אדם אחד אמיץ יוצר רוב.”
“I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.”
“There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.”
“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.”
“I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.”
“Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.”
“Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.”
“The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.”
“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”
“No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.”
“The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.”
“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.”
“It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.”
“Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.”
“Disunion by force is treason.”
“The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.”
“Elevate those guns a little lower.”
“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.”