It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.
Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States, serving from 1829 to 1837. He rose to fame as a U.S. Army general and served in both houses of Congress, and his political philosophy became the basis for the rise of Jacksonian democracy. He is praised by some as an advocate for white working Americans and for preserving the union, and criticized for his racist policies, particularly toward Native Americans.
Born in the colonial Carolinas before the Revolutionary War, he became a frontier lawyer, married Rachel Donelson, and briefly represented Tennessee in both the House and the Senate. He then served as a Tennessee Superior Court justice from 1798 to 1804. He founded The Hermitage and became a wealthy planter who profited from the forced labor of hundreds of enslaved African Americans.
Born in the colonial Carolinas before the Revolutionary War, he became a frontier lawyer, married Rachel Donelson, and briefly represented Tennessee in both the House and the Senate. He then served as a Tennessee Superior Court justice from 1798 to 1804. He founded The Hermitage and became a wealthy planter who profited from the forced labor of hundreds of enslaved African Americans.
One man with courage makes a majority.
Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.
War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
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 is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
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.