Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.
Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.
Author: Andrew Jackson
War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
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.
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.
Peace above all things is to be desired but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
Peace above all things is to be desired but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
Money is power and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
Money is power and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.