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“I trust in due time to lay the perfidy, meanness, and wickedness of [Henry] Clay naked before the American people. I have lately got an intimation of some of his secret movements, which, if I can reach with positive and responsible proof, I will wield to his political, and perhaps his actual, destruction.”

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Andrew Jackson was the 7th President of the United States, born on March 15, 1767, and died on June 8, 1845. Known for his strong nationalism and democratic stance, he played a significant role in the expansion of the United States and the end of Native American resistance. During his presidency from 1829 to 1837, Jackson implemented democratic reforms, such as the abolition of the Electoral College and the promotion of westward expansion, which had a profound impact on American politics. more

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“If in madness of delusion, anyone shall lift his parricidal hand against this blessed union, the arms of thousands will be raised to save it, and the curse of millions will fall upon the head which may have plotted its destruction.”

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Author:Andrew Jackson

“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!”

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Author:Andrew Jackson

“In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.”

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Book:Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States

Source: Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States

“It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to pay the aggrieved party may seize on the property belonging to the other, its citizens or subjects, sufficient to pay the debt without giving just cause of war.”

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Book:Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life

Source: Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life

“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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Author:Andrew Jackson

“Perpetuity is stamped upon the Constitution by the blood of our fathers.”

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Book:Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: to April 30, 1814

Source: Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: to April 30, 1814

“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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Author:Andrew Jackson

“Temporize not! It is always injurious.”

Author:Andrew Jackson

“The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining, and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away.”

Source: Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers

“The murderer only takes the life of the parent and leaves his character as a goodly heritage to his children, whilst the slanderer takes away his goodly reputation and leaves him a living monument to his children's disgrace.”

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Author:Andrew Jackson