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Quotes by Andrew Jackson
- The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
- The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
- The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.
- 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.
- The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
- There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
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