Quote

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

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
Safety
Congratulate
National
Secured
Greatest
Rejoice
Interest
Texas
Whole
Beloved
Country
Union
Important
Unions
Great
Prosperity
Annexation

More quotes by Andrew Jackson

Image
When you get in debt you become a slave.
Andrew Jackson
Image
I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets.
Andrew Jackson
Image
Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.
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
Image
If they [Mexicans] touch the hair of the head of one of our citizens, tell him [Commodore Dallas] to batter down and destroy their town and exterminate the inhabitants from the face of the earth!
Andrew Jackson
Image
The Judas of the West has closed the contract and will receive the thirty pieces of silver. . . . Was there ever witnessed such a bare faced corruption in any country before?
Andrew Jackson
Image
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.
Andrew Jackson
Image
To the victors belong the spoils.
Andrew Jackson
Image
Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks.
Andrew Jackson
Image
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.
Andrew Jackson
Image
I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.
Andrew Jackson
Image
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
Image
We must regain Texas, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.
Andrew Jackson
Image
Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.
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
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.
Andrew Jackson
Image
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.
Andrew Jackson
Image
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
Andrew Jackson
Image
If a warden sees cigarette litter being thrown from a car, they will take the number and trace the owner to send them a fine.
Andrew Jackson
Image
I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell.
Andrew Jackson