Andrew Jackson/presidency 1829-1837

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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 (1767–1845)

    “All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn’t fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd; nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn’t fair.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.”
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

    “I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)