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Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

Andrew Jackson

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Andrew Jackson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1767
Born: March 15
Died: 1845
Died: June 8
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My political enemies I can freely forgive but as for who abused me when I was serving my country in the field, and those who attacked me for serving my country -- Doctor, that is a different case.
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The Judas of the West has closed the contract and will receive the thirty pieces of silver. . . . Was there ever witnessed such a bare faced corruption in any country before?
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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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The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.
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When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.
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Temporize not! It is always injurious.
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Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
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Perpetuity is stamped upon the Constitution by the blood of our fathers.
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Heaven will be heaven only if my wife is there.
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I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.
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There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
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The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe
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Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
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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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People are my religion/Because I believe in them.
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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.
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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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Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever names they might pass and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the central power.
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