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I hope and trust to meet you in Heaven, both white and black-both white and black.

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Andrew Jackson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1767
Born: March 15
Died: 1845
Died: June 8
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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.
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The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.
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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.
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