Quote

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer...form the great body of the people of the United States they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

Andrew Jackson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andrew Jackson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1767
Born: March 15
Died: 1845
Died: June 8
7Th U.S. President
Judge
Lawyer
Military Officer
Politician
Slaveholder
Statesperson
Old Hickory
President Jackson
A. Jackson
President Andrew Jackson
General Andrew Jackson
Love
Desire
Farmers
Planter
People
Form
Bones
Sinew
States
Laws
Planters
Body
Equal
Laborer
Nothing
Liberty
Laborers
Country
Rights
Farmer
Great
Law
Mechanic
Men
United
Bone

More quotes by Andrew Jackson

Image
I not only rejoice, but congratulate my beloved country Texas is reannexed, and the safety, prosperity, and the greatest interest of the whole Union is secured by this great and important national act.
Andrew Jackson
Image
His [the President's] earnest desire is, that you may perpetuated and preserved as a nation and this he believes can only be doneand secured by your consent to remove to a country beyond the Mississippi.... Where you are, it is not possible you can live contented and happy.
Andrew Jackson
Image
The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it.
Andrew Jackson
Image
Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
Andrew Jackson
Image
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.
Andrew Jackson
Image
The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.
Andrew Jackson
Image
Disunion by force is treason.
Andrew Jackson
Image
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.
Andrew Jackson
Image
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
Andrew Jackson
Image
Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.
Andrew Jackson
Image
Corporations have neither bodies to kick, nor souls to damn.
Andrew Jackson
Image
You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.
Andrew Jackson
Image
When you get in debt you become a slave.
Andrew Jackson
Image
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]
Andrew Jackson
Image
If in madness of delusion, anyone shall lift his parricidal hand against this blessed union, the arms of thousands will be raised to save it, and the curse of millions will fall upon the head which may have plotted its destruction.
Andrew Jackson
Image
Their object is disunion.
Andrew Jackson
Image
You are uneasy you never sailed with me before, I see.
Andrew Jackson
Image
Freemasonry is an institution calculated to benefit mankind.
Andrew Jackson
Image
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
Andrew Jackson
Image
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.
Andrew Jackson