7th U S President Inspirational Quotes (128)

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.

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.