Famous quotes containing the words andrew jackson, samuel, andrew and/or jackson:
“We do not wish to injure you.... But if you again plunge your knives into the breasts of our people, I shall send a force which will severely punish you for your cruelties.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“Capt. Rev. Samuel Clayton: What good did that do ya?
Ethan Edwards: By what you preach none. By what that Comanch believes, ain’t got no eyes he can’t enter the spirit land. Has to wander forever between the winds.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)
“I am hurt but I am not slaine;
Ile lay mee downe and bleed a-while
And then Ile rise and ffight againe.”
—Unknown. Sir Andrew Barton. . .
English and Scottish Ballads (The Poetry Bookshelf)
“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)