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Andrew Jackson

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

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  • “Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.” -Andrew Jackson

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  • “Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.” -Andrew Jackson

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  • “Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.” -Andrew Jackson

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  • “Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.” -Andrew Jackson

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  • “Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.” -Andrew Jackson

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  • “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

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  • “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

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  • “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.” -Andrew Jackson

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  • “Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.” -Andrew Jackson

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  • “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.” -Andrew Jackson

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  • “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.” -Andrew Jackson

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  • “The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.” -Andrew Jackson

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  • “Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.” -Andrew Jackson

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

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  • “One man with courage makes a majority.” -Andrew Jackson

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  • “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.” -Andrew Jackson

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