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The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

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Andrew Jackson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1767
Born: March 15
Died: 1845
Died: June 8
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I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets.
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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
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Disunion by force is treason.
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You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.
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You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.
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Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe!
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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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In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people of the United States are to govern through representatives chosen by their unbiased suffrages or whether the money and power of a great corporation are to be secretly exerted to influence their judgment and control their decisions.
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I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.
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The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.
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From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.
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Elevate those guns a little lower.
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I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe.
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There are only two things I can't give up one is coffee and the other is tobacco.
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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.
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Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven.
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Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President.
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There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
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To the victors belong the spoils.
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