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Andrew Jackson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1767
Born: March 15
Died: 1845
Died: June 8
7Th U.S. President
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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.
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Heaven will be heaven only if my wife is there.
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I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe.
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Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.
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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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Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.
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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.
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The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it.
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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 person and property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending.
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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.
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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.
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I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.
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We must regain Texas, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.
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