Jackson

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    Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

    If [government] 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 (1767–1845)

    The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)