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The bank...is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!

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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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War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
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When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.
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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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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.
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Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. But when you get in debt you become a slave. Therefore I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.
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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 hope and trust to meet you in Heaven, both white and black-both white and black.
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Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
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There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
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All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.
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I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.
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The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it.
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Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
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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]
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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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We must regain Texas, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.
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The murderer only takes the life of the parent and leaves his character as a goodly heritage to his children, whilst the slanderer takes away his goodly reputation and leaves him a living monument to his children's disgrace.
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Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms.
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The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.
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