Andrew Jackson

“To the victors belong the spoils.”

“Disunion by armed force is treason.”

“One man with courage makes a majority.”

“The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.”

“Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.”

“The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.”

“I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.”

“I was born for a storm, and a calm does not suit me.”

“Our Federal Union: it must be preserved.”

“John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it.”

“The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.”

“It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.”

“There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.”

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

“As long as our Government is administered for the good of the people... it will be worth defending.”