Quote by Andrew Jackson
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public o

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. – Andrew Jackson

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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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Government
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Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges… which are employed altogether for their benefit. – Andrew Jackson

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power
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Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. – Andrew Jackson

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Peace
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Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right. – William Allen White (Thanks, Bob)

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Government

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. – Edmund Burke

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Government

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. – Albert Camus

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Government

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed. – Rush Limbaugh

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Government

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Whats going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. Were getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when youre in charge. – Lindsey Graham

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Politics

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. – Mark Twain

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Mind

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. – Victor Hugo

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good

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation which often cry down works, and mens own righteousness, and. – Jonathan Edwards

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Religion