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Quote by Andrew Jackson
The people are the government, administering it by their agents th

The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power. – Andrew Jackson

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The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer… form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws. – Andrew Jackson

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great
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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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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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To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches. – Thomas Paine

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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. – Will Rogers

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A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. – Harry S. Truman

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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. – Denis Diderot

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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. – Wyatt Earp

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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. Theyre working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler. – Barbara Bush

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Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. – Paul Boese

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