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I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets.
Andrew Jackson
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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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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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The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.
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The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.
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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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This season has been full of rewards. The dinners and banquets just keep on coming. It's great. We want to carry it on as long as we can.
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The bank...is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!
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