Andrew Jackson

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted…

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the…

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the…

The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the…

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts…

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which…

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of…

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

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or…

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as…

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government…

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is…

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for…

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not…

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power…