Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Andrew Jackson (American Head of State)

Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) was an American Democratic-party political leader who served as the 7th president of the U.S. 1829–37. He was the first Westerner and the first self-made man to achieve the presidency. Although considered both a champion and symbol of democracy, his legacy is tainted by his divisive use of federal power against non-whites—he also appropriated land promised to American Indians in a treaty and was a wealthy plantation owner who bought and sold slaves.

Born in Waxhaw, South Carolina, to Scotch-Irish immigrants, Jackson grew up in log-cabin poverty. He fought in the Revolutionary War as a boy, studied law, and in 1788 moved west to Nashville. He served briefly in the U.S. House of Representatives 1796–97 and as a U.S. Senator 1797–98 and 1823–25.

After serving as a Tennessee prosecutor, judge, congressman, senator, and militia general, Jackson won fame for waging several campaigns against American Indians. He became a national hero in the War of 1812 when he defeated the British at New Orleans (1815.) He also successfully invaded Florida (1818.) His reputation for toughness gave rise to the moniker ‘Old Hickory.”

Elected president more for his patriotic persona than his mostly unformed political views, Jackson presided over the advancement of political democracy in America. His two administrations, famous for ideologies labeled “The Age of Jackson” and “Jacksonian Democracy,” encouraged participation in government by the people, particularly the middle class. He founded the Democratic Party.

As president, Jackson vetoed the renewal of the charter of the Bank of the United States, paid off the national debt, organized the Wisconsin Territory, admitted Michigan as the 26th state of the union, recognized the independence of Texas, and opposed the nullification issue in South Carolina.

Jackson oversaw the forced removal of Native Americans from the South. Just a year after taking office, he pushed a new piece of legislation called the “Indian Removal Act” through both houses of Congress. This culminated in the Trail of Tears—the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations were relocated from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern U.S. to an area west of the Mississippi River that had previously been designated as Indian Territory.

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Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
Andrew Jackson
Topics: Wife, Marriage, Heaven

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew Jackson
Topics: Taxes, Taxation

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
Andrew Jackson
Topics: Sacrifice, Value

One man with courage is a majority.
Andrew Jackson
Topics: Courage

Every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers—who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.
Andrew Jackson
Topics: Welfare

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
Andrew Jackson
Topics: Courage, Bravery

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
Andrew Jackson

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Andrew Jackson
Topics: Time, Action, War

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can’t think of at least two ways to spell any word.
Andrew Jackson
Topics: Words

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 its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
Andrew Jackson
Topics: Patriotism

Our Union: It must be preserved.
Andrew Jackson

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rain, shower its favors alike on the high and on the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.
Andrew Jackson
Topics: Government

I hope and trust to meet you in Heaven, both white and black-both white and black.
Andrew Jackson
Topics: Death

John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!
Andrew Jackson

It’s a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
Andrew Jackson
Topics: Words, Mind, The Mind

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
Andrew Jackson
Topics: Government

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