Jackson

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“Disunion by force is treason.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

“[Government’s] true strength consists in leaving individuals and states as much as possible to themselves—in making itself felt, not in its power, but in its beneficence, not in its control, but in its protection, not in binding the states more closely to the center, but leaving each to move unobstructed in its proper orbit.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

“I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.”
—Jesse Jackson (b. 1941)