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

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I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it. – Andrew Jackson

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Government
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Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments. – Andrew Jackson

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power
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As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending. – Andrew Jackson

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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. – Milan Kundera

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For as long as the power of Americas diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome. – Ron Kind

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Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitlers short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing. – James Buchan

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Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. – Simone Weil

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If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor. – William Shakespeare

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My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun. – Jacqueline Winspear

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Men dont know much about women. We do know when theyre happy. We know when theyre crying, and we know when theyre pissed off. We just dont know in what order these are gonna come at us. – Evan Davis

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Many say an art dealer running a museum is a conflict of interest. But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest. – Jerry Saltz

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