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Quote by Andrew Jackson
As long as our government is administered for the good of the peop

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 duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none. – 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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Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down. – Andrew Jackson

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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government. – Oliver Cromwell

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My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. – Grover Norquist

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