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Vote: | Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Elevate those guns a little lower. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word. |
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Vote: | It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody. |
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Vote: | Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. |
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Vote: | The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. |
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Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States, serving from 1829 to 1837. Until his election, every President had either been a member of the Virginia plantation elite, or had been named Adams. Jackson, nicknamed "Old Hickory," was neither of those. He was the first president who had lived on the American frontier, and thus the first not primarily associated with one of the original thirteen colonies. Jackson became the symbol of an era in American history — sometimes called the "Age of Jackson" or the "Jacksonian Era" — an era traditionally seen as dominating the years between the War of 1812 and the Civil War.
Early life
Born in a backwoods settlement in the Waxhaws area in the Carolinas on March 15, 1767, he received a sporadic education. At age thirteen he joined the Continental Army as a courier. He was captured and imprisoned by the British in the American Revolutionary War. When he refused to clean the boots of a British officer, the irate redcoat slashed him with a sword, giving Jackson the scars (and intense hatred for the British) that he would carry all his life. This anglophobia would be combined with a distrust and dislike of Eastern aristocrats stemming from his feeling that they were too inclined to favor and emulate their former colonial masters. Jackson admired Napoleon Bonaparte for his willingness to contest British military supremacy.
The war also took the lives of Jackson's entire immediate family. He came to Tennessee shortly after 1800, as a young lawyer. Since he was not of a distinguished family, he had to make his career by his own merits, and soon he began to prosper in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier law. He became a colonel in the state militia, which began his military career.
His service in the War of 1812 was conspicuous for its bravery and success. He was popular with his troops and was said to have been "tough as old hickory" wood on the battlefield, which gave him his nickname. The war, and particularly his command at the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815, made his national reputation and he advanced in rank to Major General.
His subsequent political rise was rapid. He was elected to both houses of Congress and served on the state supreme court. He saw military service again in 1818 and campaigned in Florida against Spain, helping secure that territory for the United States. He subsequently was appointed territorial governor there.
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