Quotes
Quotes - Jackson
Our Federal Union: it must be preserved.
You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.
All lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love;
No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love.
Like a blind spinner in the sun,
I tread my days:
I know that all the threads will run
Appointed ways.
I know each day will bring its task,
And being blind no more I ask.
On the king's gate the moss grew gray;
The king came not. They called him dead
And made his eldest son one day
Slave in his father's stead.
Father, I scarcely dare to pray,
So clear I see, now it is done,
How I have wasted half my day,
And left my work but just begun.
The voice of one who goes before, to make
The paths of June more beautiful, is thine
Sweet May!
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.
No man is ever old enough to know better.
No man is ever old enough to know better.
...A being so gentle and so virtuous slander might wound, but could not dishonor.
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
The newest books are those that never grow old.
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
One man with courage makes a majority.
One man with courage makes a majority. -Andrew Jackson.
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
You are uneasy, . . . you never sailed with me before, I see.
Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea. spoken on Book TV by a Jackson biographer.
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thingâ that's the Lord's test.
