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Military Officer Inspirational Quotes (14034)

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Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
Andrew Johnson
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Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.
Andrew Johnson
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When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Andrew Jackson
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Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.
Andrew Jackson
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Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.
Andrew Jackson
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There are only two things I can't give up one is coffee and the other is tobacco.
Andrew Jackson
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Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.
Andrew Jackson
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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
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This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.
Andrew Jackson
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Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.
Andrew Jackson
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Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe!
Andrew Jackson
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There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.
Andrew Jackson
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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
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The President is the direct representative of the American people and is elected by the people and responsible to them.
Andrew Jackson
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It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to pay the aggrieved party may seize on the property belonging to the other, its citizens or subjects, sufficient to pay the debt without giving just cause of war.
Andrew Jackson
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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
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I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell.
Andrew Jackson
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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
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I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets.
Andrew Jackson
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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 the Storm The free people of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom.
Andrew Jackson
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The bank...is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!
Andrew Jackson
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Too much praise cannot be bestowed on those who managed my artillery.
Andrew Jackson
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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
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Desperate courage makes One a majority.
Andrew Jackson
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