"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses."
― Andrew Jackson
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Government
― Andrew Jackson
More From Andrew Jackson
- "War is a blessing compared with national degradation."
- "Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges… which are employed altogether for their benefit."
- "The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer… form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws."
More In Government
- "We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out."― Colin Powell
- "A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."― Alexis de Tocqueville
- "The weather is like the government, always in the wrong."― Jerome K. Jerome