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People are my religion/Because I believe in them.

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Andrew Jackson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1767
Born: March 15
Died: 1845
Died: June 8
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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.
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In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.
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Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe!
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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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Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
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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 fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I therefore protest against receiving any of that trash.
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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.
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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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I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe.
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Perpetuity is stamped upon the Constitution by the blood of our fathers.
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The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key and bolt the door at once.
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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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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.
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I have always been afraid of banks.
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The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it.
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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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I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.
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When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
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Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
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