Quotes by Andrew Jackson

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

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

I have always been afraid of banks.

Never take counsel of your fears.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in!

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

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

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.