More From Andrew Jackson
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
More In War
- "Being in this business for as long as I’ve been in it, it’s sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls."― Carly Simon
- "That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views."― Paul Wolfowitz
- "Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world."― Orison Swett Marden