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The President is the direct representative of the American people and is elected by the people and responsible to them.

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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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The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.
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Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
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That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizensis certain. They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition.
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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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As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will as long as it secures to us the rights of person and property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending.
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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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Freemasonry is an ancient and respectable institution, embracing individuals of every nation, of every religion, and of every condition in life. Wealth, power and talents are not necessary to the person of a Freemason. An unblemished character and a virtuous conduct are the only qualifications for admission into the Order.
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This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.
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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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We must regain Texas, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.
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The bank...is trying to kill me, but I will kill 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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