Jackson

Famous quotes containing the word jackson:

“This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

“God will take care of you for me. I am my God’s. I belong to him, I go a short time before you, and I want to meet all in heaven, both white and black.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

“Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No—we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)