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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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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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The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough. – Andrew Jackson

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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. – Abraham Lincoln

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