Quote by Andrew Jackson
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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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We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government. – Andrew Jackson

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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. – Andrew Jackson

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It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. – Andrew Jackson

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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. – Winston Churchill

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When desire dies, fear is born. – Baltasar Gracian

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Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts. – Elizabeth I

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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. – Richard Bach

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