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“Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers”, p.168, New Leaf Publishing Group 24 Copy quote The bank...is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!
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“The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me. But I will kill it.” Three days later, Jackson announced his vetoof the bank charter. “I have been afraid of banks.” Jackson is often quoted as saying "I have always been afraid of banks," but the actual quote was, "Ever since I read the history of the South Sea Bubble, I have been afraid of banks."
Though Dickinson shot first and hit Jackson squarely in the chest, nearly killing him, Old Hickory calmly took his shot as if he had not been wounded at all. When a friend expressed his astonishment at Jackson's composure, Jackson stated, “If he had shot me through the brain, sir, I should still have killed him.”
"Do they think that I am such a damned fool to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President."
“I try to live my life as if death might come for me at any moment.” Though that may have been true, he was also prepared to fight death tooth and nail. When an assassin tried to kill him in 1835, Jackson beat him in the face with his cane.
The day after Van Buren was elected president, Jackson took the time to reflect on his own presidency with a friend. When asked if he had any regrets about the last eight years, this was his response:“[That] I didn’t shoot Henry Clay and I didn’t hang John C. Calhoun.”
"John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation, I will secede your head from the rest of your body." As The Weeksays, this one is unverified, but given Jackson's character and relationship with Calhoun, it's likely.
“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of governmentto their own selfish purposes.”
"The wisdomof man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality."
Kentucky sent 2300 militiamen to back Jackson up during the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. Astonished that so many of them showed up without weapons, he uttered the now-famous quote that is proudly emblazoned as Kentucky pride on t-shirts: “I never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn’t have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.”
- Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. Andrew Jackson.
- 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.
- 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.
- There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. Andrew Jackson.
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Maryland (1819). President Andrew Jackson disagreed. Jackson—like Jefferson and Madison before him—thought that the Bank of the United States was unconstitutional. When Congress voted to extend the Second Bank’s charter in 1832, Jackson vetoed the bill. To explain his decision to the nation, Jackson issued this veto message on July 10, 1832.
Andrew Jackson’s disaffection with the powerful central bank and its "paper money" can be traced as far back as the First Bank of the US. Jackson lost everything during the time when the market expansion and the availability of western lands should have offered safe opportunities for economic improvement to more and more individuals.
In this veto message, President Jackson passionately rejects a bill that rechartered the Bank of the United States. He argues that the Bank gives privilege and unfair advantage to a wealthy few at the expense of the public, and he opposes foreign ownership of Bank stock.
Thus emboldened, Jackson in 1833 ordered his Treasury Secretary, Louis McLane, to remove the government’s deposits from the Second Bank and re-deposit them in state chartered banks throughout the country derisively labeled Jackson’s “pet banks.” When McLane refused, Jackson cashiered him and appointed William J. Duane in his stead.
