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Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before being elected to the presidency, Jackson gained fame as a general in the United States Army and served in both houses of Congress. As president, Jackson sought to advance the rights of the "common man" against a "corrupt aristocracy" and to preserve the Union.

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When you get in debt you become a slave.

Debt, Slave, Become

Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No -- we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.

Military, Fighting, Son, Born, Earth, Rights

I have always been afraid of banks.

Afraid, Banks

We must regain Texas, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

Ifs, Mexico, Peaceably, Regain, Texas

Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add. . . artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges—to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful— the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers, who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.

Artificial, Humble, Make, Mean, Powerful, Richer

When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.

Death, Rich, Sick, Strong, Sweeps

The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

Brave, Country, Courage, Inattentive, Man, Military

The bank. . . is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!

Bank, Kill, Kill Me, Trying

Be good children, and we shall all meet in Heaven. I want to meet you all, white and black, in Heaven. Our Federal Union! It must be preserved! [Toast at a celebration of Thomas Jefferson's birthday, April 13 1830]

Celebration, Children, Federal, Good, Heaven, White

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

Promise, Scripture, Trouble, Scriptures, Joyful, Contains

In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people of the United States are to govern through representatives chosen by their unbiased suffrages or whether the money and power of a great corporation are to be secretly exerted to influence their judgment and control their decisions.

Case, Decision, Liberty, People, Unbiased, United

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Evil, Exist, Government, Necessary, Patriotic

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Heaven, Marriage, Meet, Wife

Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President.

Body, Fool, Men, Real, Thinking, United

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

Aggravation, Blessing, Degradation, National, War

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

Entire, Government, Law, Practice, United

In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.

Demand, Government, Qualities, Quality, Superior

Temporize not! It is always injurious.

Injurious, Temporize

Without union our independence and liberty would never have been achieved; without union they can never be maintained. Divided into twenty-four, or even a smaller number, of separate communities, we shall see our internal trade burdened with numberless restraints and exactions; communications between distant points and sections obstructed or cut off; our sons made soldiers to deluge with blood the fields they now till in peace. . . The loss of liberty, of all good government, of peace, plenty, and happiness, must inevitably follow a dissolution of the Union.

Achieved, Blood, Communication, Cut, Cutting, Son

Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms.

War, May, Revolutionary, Act, Like, Morally

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