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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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This season has been full of rewards. The dinners and banquets just keep on coming. It's great. We want to carry it on as long as we can.
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Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
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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 bank...is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!
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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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I hope and trust to meet you in Heaven, both white and black-both white and black.
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John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.
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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 am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.
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