If a warden sees cigarette litter being thrown from a car, they will take the number and trace the owner to send them a fine. Andrew Jackson More Quotes by Andrew Jackson More Quotes From Andrew Jackson It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. Andrew Jackson patriotic selfish powerful After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun. Andrew Jackson eight regret government 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. Andrew Jackson patriotic 4th-of-july believe John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body. Andrew Jackson your-body nations body From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad... It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power. Andrew Jackson government ambition people I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me. Andrew Jackson storm suits doe You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning. Andrew Jackson nwo morning people Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. Andrew Jackson patriotic peace blood When you get in debt you become a slave. Andrew Jackson debt slave 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. Andrew Jackson powerful humble mean There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. Andrew Jackson patriotic government evil But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. Andrew Jackson freedom military blessing The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer...form the great body of the people of the United States they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws. Andrew Jackson law men country As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of person and property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending. Andrew Jackson government rights long The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it. Andrew Jackson court decision made 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. Andrew Jackson fighting military son I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office. Andrew Jackson patriotic successful country 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. Andrew Jackson wisdom believe country 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. Andrew Jackson government important spring The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it. Andrew Jackson fate government people
