110+ Andrew Jackson Quotes On Indian Removal, Nullification And Central Banks

Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States, serving from 1829 to 1837. He was a founder of the Democratic Party and is remembered for his support of individual liberty and for his opposition to the Bank of the United States. He was a hero of the War of 1812 and is remembered for his populist policies, which sought to expand the influence of ordinary citizens in government. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Andrew Jackson on indian removal, nullification, central banks.

Top 10 Andrew Jackson Quotes

1. It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
2. 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.
3. There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
4. I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.
5. There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
6. But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
7. One man with courage makes a majority.
8. All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.
9. Freemasonry is an institution calculated to benefit mankind.
10. When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Andrew Jackson Short Quotes

• It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
• Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.
• Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
• Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
• War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
• Too much praise cannot be bestowed on those who managed my artillery.
• You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
• Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.
• I hope and trust to meet you in Heaven, both white and black-both white and black.
• This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.

Andrew Jackson Quotes About Central Banks

You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out. — Andrew Jackson

The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it. — Andrew Jackson

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations. — Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson Quotes About Government

You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning. — Andrew Jackson

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. — Andrew Jackson

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. — Andrew Jackson

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. — Andrew Jackson

In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents. — Andrew Jackson

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. — Andrew Jackson

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. — Andrew Jackson

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it. — Andrew Jackson

No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism. — Andrew Jackson

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. — Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson Quotes About People

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office. — Andrew Jackson

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough. — Andrew Jackson

In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges. — Andrew Jackson

Toward the aborigines of the country no one can indulge a more friendly feeling than myself, or would go further in attempting to reclaim them from their wandering habits and make them a happy, prosperous people. — Andrew Jackson

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws. — Andrew Jackson

It will be my sincere and constant desire to observe toward the Indian tribes within our limits a just and liberal policy, and to give that humane and considerate attention to their rights and their wants which is consistent with the habits of our Government and the feelings of our people. — Andrew Jackson

Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission. — Andrew Jackson

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result. — Andrew Jackson

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending. — Andrew Jackson

People are my religion/Because I believe in them. — Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson Quotes About States

I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life. — Andrew Jackson

I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I therefore protest against receiving any of that trash. — Andrew Jackson

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

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. — Andrew Jackson

Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President. — Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson Quotes About Union

There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone. — Andrew Jackson

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble. — Andrew Jackson

Be good children, and we shall all meet in Heaven. I want to meet you all, white and black, in Heaven. Our Federal Union! It must be preserved! [Toast at a celebration of Thomas Jefferson's birthday, April 13 1830] — Andrew Jackson

If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword. — Andrew Jackson

I not only rejoice, but congratulate my beloved country Texas is reannexed, and the safety, prosperity, and the greatest interest of the whole Union is secured by this great and important national act. — Andrew Jackson

Our Union: It must be preserved. — Andrew Jackson

If in madness of delusion, anyone shall lift his parricidal hand against this blessed union, the arms of thousands will be raised to save it, and the curse of millions will fall upon the head which may have plotted its destruction. — Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson Quotes About Rights

Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms. — Andrew Jackson

The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe — Andrew Jackson

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. — Andrew Jackson

Were all the worshippers of the gold calf to memorialize me and request a restoration of the deposits I would cut my right hand from my body before I would do such an act. The gold calf may be worshipped by others but as for myself I serve the Lord. — Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson Famous Quotes And Sayings

There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way. — Andrew Jackson

Freemasonry is an ancient and respectable institution, embracing individuals of every nation, of every religion, and of every condition in life. Wealth, power and talents are not necessary to the person of a Freemason. An unblemished character and a virtuous conduct are the only qualifications for admission into the Order. — Andrew Jackson

I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country. — Andrew Jackson

From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger. — Andrew Jackson

I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell. — Andrew Jackson

Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths, in the midst of the most innocent and social pleasures, founded on liberality, brotherly love and charity. — Andrew Jackson

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. — 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

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering. — Andrew Jackson

That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizensis certain. They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition. — Andrew Jackson

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it. — Andrew Jackson

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit. — Andrew Jackson

I trust in due time to lay the perfidy, meanness, and wickedness of [Henry] Clay naked before the American people. I have lately got an intimation of some of his secret movements, which, if I can reach with positive and responsible proof, I will wield to his political, and perhaps his actual, destruction. — Andrew Jackson

I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed. — Andrew Jackson

If they [Mexicans] touch the hair of the head of one of our citizens, tell him [Commodore Dallas] to batter down and destroy their town and exterminate the inhabitants from the face of the earth! — Andrew Jackson

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once. — Andrew Jackson

The Judas of the West has closed the contract and will receive the thirty pieces of silver. . . . Was there ever witnessed such a bare faced corruption in any country before? — Andrew Jackson

To the victors belong the spoils. — Andrew Jackson

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

I could not do otherwise without transcending the limits prescribed by the Constitution for the President and without feeling that I might in some degree disturb the security which religion nowadays enjoys in this country in its complete separation from the political concerns of the General Government. — Andrew Jackson

Desperate courage makes One a majority. — Andrew Jackson

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. — Andrew Jackson

Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue. — Andrew Jackson

In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people of the United States are to govern through representatives chosen by their unbiased suffrages or whether the money and power of a great corporation are to be secretly exerted to influence their judgment and control their decisions. — Andrew Jackson

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

I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life. — Andrew Jackson

Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance. — Andrew Jackson

The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had. — Andrew Jackson

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see. — Andrew Jackson

We must regain Texas, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must. — Andrew Jackson

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

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. — Andrew Jackson

Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven. — Andrew Jackson

I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe. — Andrew Jackson

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. — Andrew Jackson

Trusting as we did to the virtue of the people, the real people, not the politicians and demagogues, we passed through the most responsible and trying scenes, sustained by the bone and sinew of the nation, the laborers of the land, where alone, in these days of Bank rule, and ragocrat corruption, real virtue and love of liberty is to be found. — Andrew Jackson

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger. — Andrew Jackson

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

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. — Andrew Jackson

I do not promise to believe tomorrow exactly what I believe today, and I do not believe today exactly what I believed yesterday. I expect to make, as I have made, some honest progress within every succeeding twenty-four hours. — Andrew Jackson

The bank...is trying to kill me, but I will kill it! — Andrew Jackson

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. But when you get in debt you become a slave. Therefore I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety. — Andrew Jackson

The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it. — Andrew Jackson

Their object is disunion. — Andrew Jackson

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. — Andrew Jackson

Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe! — Andrew Jackson

When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death. — Andrew Jackson

Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me. — Andrew Jackson

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. — Andrew Jackson

Heaven will be heaven only if my wife is there. — Andrew Jackson

Corporations have neither bodies to kick, nor souls to damn. — Andrew Jackson

There are, perhaps, few men who can for any length of time enjoy office and power without being more or less under the influence of feelings unfavorable to the faithful discharge of their political duties. — Andrew Jackson

The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining, and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away. — Andrew Jackson

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety. — Andrew Jackson

Perpetuity is stamped upon the Constitution by the blood of our fathers. — Andrew Jackson

This season has been full of rewards. The dinners and banquets just keep on coming. It's great. We want to carry it on as long as we can. — Andrew Jackson

Finally, it is my most fervent prayer to that Almighty Being before whom I now stand, and who has kept us in His hands from the infancy of our Republic to the present day, that He will so overrule all my intentions and actions and inspire the hearts of my fellow-citizens that we may be preserved from dangers of all kinds and continue forever a united and happy people. — Andrew Jackson

Life Lessons by Andrew Jackson

1. Andrew Jackson's life teaches us to never give up, no matter how difficult the odds. He overcame a difficult childhood and numerous political and personal struggles to become one of the most influential presidents in American history.
2. Andrew Jackson's life also demonstrates the importance of standing up for what you believe in and not backing down in the face of adversity. He was a staunch defender of the rights of the common man and fought for the expansion of democracy.
3. Finally, Andrew Jackson's life shows us the power of resilience and determination. He was able to overcome numerous personal and political setbacks to become one of the most influential presidents in American history.