Jackson

Famous quotes containing the word jackson:

    The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
    —Jesse Jackson (b. 1941)

    Trusting as we did to the virtue of the people, the real people, not the politicians and demagogues, we passed through the most responsible and trying scenes, sustained by the bone and sinew of the nation, the laborers of the land, where alone, in these days of Bank rule, and ragocrat corruption, real virtue and love of liberty is to be found.
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

    Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)