Jackson

Famous quotes containing the word jackson:

    Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No—we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

    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 (1767–1845)

    This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)