Andrew Jackson Quotes

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

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.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

That book (Bible), sir, is the rock on which our republic rests.

What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute.