Jackson

Famous quotes containing the word jackson:

“Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever names they might pass and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the central power.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

“Oh, write of me, not “Died in bitter pains,”
But “Emigrated to another star!””
—Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885)

“From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)