Quotes by Andrew Jackson

“The decision of the Supreme court has fell still born, and they find that it cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate.”

“The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.”

“It is maintained by some that the bank is a means of executing the constitutional power to coin money and regulate the value thereof. Congress have established a mint to coin money and passed laws ...”

“To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation because it would be a solecism to contend that any part of a nation might dissolve its...”

“While I concur with the Synod in the efficacy of prayer, and in the hope that our country may be preserved from the attacks of pestilence and that the judgments now abroad in the earth may be sanct...”

“Gentleman, I have had men watching you for a long time, and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the bread-stuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the pr...”

“Was this to be permitted the Government would loose [sic] the confidence of its citizens & it would induce disunion every where[.] No my friend, the crisis must be now met with firmness, our citize...”

“Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils in its train that they might reign & ride on its whirlwinds & direct t...”

“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.”

“Our Federal Union! It must be preserved!”

“Oh, do not cry. Be good children, and we shall all meet in Heaven ... I want to meet you all, white and black, in Heaven.”

“It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.”

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

“You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.”