Andrew Jackson
Quotations

"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. "

 

"Never take counsel of your fears. "

 

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

 

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

 

"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. "

 

"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 persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending. "