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I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.

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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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Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.
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The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.
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John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.
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Corporations have neither bodies to kick, nor souls to damn.
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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 am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.
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What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute.
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