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Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.

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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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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.
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Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.
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The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it.
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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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To the victors belong the spoils.
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Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.
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I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.
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I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe.
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The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.
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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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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.
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There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
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Desperate courage makes One a majority.
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When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
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There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
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Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths, in the midst of the most innocent and social pleasures, founded on liberality, brotherly love and charity.
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I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell.
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Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe!
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You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.
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Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.
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