Quote by Andrew Jackson
Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support. – Andrew Jackson

Other quotes by Andrew Jackson

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. – Andrew Jackson

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Government
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Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down. – Andrew Jackson

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War
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Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result. – Andrew Jackson

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Fear
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Other Quotes from
power
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The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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power

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you cant ever start a work of art. – Jeanne Moreau

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power

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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power

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devils policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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power

Random Quotes

The difference between involvement and commitment is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was involved – the pig was committed. – Anon.

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Commitment

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. – Umberto Eco

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Death

God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. – W.E. Channing

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Books

How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America? – Author Unknown

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Election Day