Jackson

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    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)

    I not only rejoice, but congratulate my beloved country Texas is reannexed, and the safety, prosperity, and the greatest interest of the whole Union is secured by this ... great and important national act.
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

    The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)