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Heaven will be heaven only if my wife is there.

Andrew Jackson

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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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There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.
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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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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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I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell.
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When you get in debt you become a slave.
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Their object is disunion.
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This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.
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After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.
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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]
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There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.
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People are my religion/Because I believe in them.
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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.
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Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
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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!
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Toward the aborigines of the country no one can indulge a more friendly feeling than myself, or would go further in attempting to reclaim them from their wandering habits and make them a happy, prosperous people.
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The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.
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It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
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The murderer only takes the life of the parent and leaves his character as a goodly heritage to his children, whilst the slanderer takes away his goodly reputation and leaves him a living monument to his children's disgrace.
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