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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
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I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
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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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No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.
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Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever names they might pass and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the central power.
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Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
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Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven.
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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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I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.
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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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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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[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.
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Corporations have neither bodies to kick, nor souls to damn.
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Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
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Disunion by force is treason.
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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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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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I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell.
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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?
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I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.
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There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.
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