Top 100 Andrew Jackson Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.”

— Andrew Jackson

2. “After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.”

— Andrew Jackson

3. “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

4. “John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.”

— Andrew Jackson

5. “When you get in debt you become a slave.”

— Andrew Jackson

6. “You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.”

— Andrew Jackson

7. “You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.”

— Andrew Jackson

8. “Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I’ll whip any other thousand men on the globe!”

— Andrew Jackson

9. “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

10. “There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.”

— Andrew Jackson

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

— Andrew Jackson

12. “Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.”

— Andrew Jackson

13. “I do not forget that I am a mechanic. I am proud to own it. Neither do I forget that the apostle Paul was a tentmaker; Socrates was a sculptor; and Archimedes was a mechanic.”

— Andrew Jackson

14. “The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.”

— Andrew Jackson

15. “When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”

— Andrew Jackson

16. “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

17. “There are only two things I can’t give up; one is coffee and the other is tobacco.”

— Andrew Jackson

18. “Elevate those guns a little lower.”

— Andrew Jackson

19. “One man with courage makes a majority.”

— Andrew Jackson

20. “The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it.”

— Andrew Jackson

21. “There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.”

— Andrew Jackson

22. “I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn’t have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.”

— Andrew Jackson

23. “There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.”

— Andrew Jackson

24. “Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.”

— Andrew Jackson

25. “All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.”

— Andrew Jackson

26. “To the victors belong the spoils.”

— Andrew Jackson

27. “Disunion by force is treason.”

— Andrew Jackson

28. “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

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

— Andrew Jackson

30. “What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute.”

— Andrew Jackson

31. “The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.”

— Andrew Jackson

32. “Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.”

— Andrew Jackson

33. “Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.”

— Andrew Jackson

34. “The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.”

— Andrew Jackson

35. “War is a blessing compared with national degradation.”

— Andrew Jackson

36. “The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.”

— Andrew Jackson

37. “I have always been afraid of banks.”

— Andrew Jackson

38. “Temporize not! It is always injurious.”

— Andrew Jackson

39. “No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.”

— Andrew Jackson

40. “Freemasonry is an institution calculated to benefit mankind.”

— Andrew Jackson

41. “The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.”

— Andrew Jackson

42. “Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue.”

— Andrew Jackson

43. “Perpetuity is stamped upon the Constitution by the blood of our fathers.”

— Andrew Jackson

44. “Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.”

— Andrew Jackson

45. “Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.”

— Andrew Jackson

46. “I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.”

— Andrew Jackson

47. “Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.”

— Andrew Jackson

48. “It is a damn poor mind indeed which can’t think of at least two ways to spell any word.”

— Andrew Jackson

49. “Desperate courage makes One a majority.”

— Andrew Jackson

50. “I hope and trust to meet you in Heaven, both white and black-both white and black.”

— Andrew Jackson