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The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

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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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I trust in due time to lay the perfidy, meanness, and wickedness of [Henry] Clay naked before the American people. I have lately got an intimation of some of his secret movements, which, if I can reach with positive and responsible proof, I will wield to his political, and perhaps his actual, destruction.
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We must regain Texas, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.
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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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Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.
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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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Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven.
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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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[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.
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The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.
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When you get in debt you become a slave.
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Perpetuity is stamped upon the Constitution by the blood of our fathers.
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Trusting as we did to the virtue of the people, the real people, not the politicians and demagogues, we passed through the most responsible and trying scenes, sustained by the bone and sinew of the nation, the laborers of the land, where alone, in these days of Bank rule, and ragocrat corruption, real virtue and love of liberty is to be found.
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Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks.
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I have always been afraid of banks.
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It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
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Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
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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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I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
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