Creative Quotations from Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Andrew Jackson
(1767-1845) born on Mar 15

US "president (7th), soldier, lawyer, planter". "He was "Old Hickory" and the military hero of the War of 1812; he introduced the spoils system and boosted expansionism."

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see."

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

"Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission."

To the victors belong the spoils.

"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."

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"Remark made to an elderly gentleman who was sailing with Jackson; In "Life of Jackson," Vol. iii. p. 493 by Parton."
R:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
A:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
N:	"In "Best Quotations for All Occasions," by Lewis C. Henry, 1945."
K:	"In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."