Quote

This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.

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
Abolition
Becoming
Law
Evil
War
Spirit
Great
Servile

More quotes by Andrew Jackson

Image
You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.
Andrew Jackson
Image
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
Image
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
Andrew Jackson
Image
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
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 hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.
Andrew Jackson
Image
Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.
Andrew Jackson
Image
There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.
Andrew Jackson
Image
There are only two things I can't give up one is coffee and the other is tobacco.
Andrew Jackson
Image
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.
Andrew Jackson
Image
There are, perhaps, few men who can for any length of time enjoy office and power without being more or less under the influence of feelings unfavorable to the faithful discharge of their political duties.
Andrew Jackson
Image
Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.
Andrew Jackson
Image
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.
Andrew Jackson
Image
To extraordinary powers of labor, both mental and physical, he unites that tact and judgement which are requisite to the successful direction of such an office as that of Chief Magistrate of a free people.
Andrew Jackson
Image
Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.
Andrew Jackson
Image
Too much praise cannot be bestowed on those who managed my artillery.
Andrew Jackson
Image
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
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
We must regain Texas, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.
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