Alfred Hitchcock Quotes

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


Self-plagiarism is style.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
~ Alfred Hitchcock


I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
~ Alfred Hitchcock


I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
~ Alfred Hitchcock

Andy Rooney Quotes

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
~ Andy Rooney


We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
~ Andy Rooney


We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.
~ Andy Rooney


If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
~ Andy Rooney


If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
~ Andy Rooney


Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
~ Andy Rooney


I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.
~ Andy Rooney


I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
~ Andy Rooney


I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.
~ Andy Rooney


I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?
~ Andy Rooney


I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.
~ Andy Rooney


I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.
~ Andy Rooney


I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.
~ Andy Rooney


I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.
~ Andy Rooney


I'm in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it's wrong that I get fired, well, I've got enough to eat.
~ Andy Rooney


It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
~ Andy Rooney


Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.
~ Andy Rooney


The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
~ Andy Rooney


The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
~ Andy Rooney


A writer's job is to tell the truth.
~ Andy Rooney


All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.
~ Andy Rooney


Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
~ Andy Rooney


As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
~ Andy Rooney


Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
~ Andy Rooney


Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
~ Andy Rooney


Death is a distant rumor to the young.
~ Andy Rooney


Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
~ Andy Rooney


Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
~ Andy Rooney


Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
~ Andy Rooney


The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
~ Andy Rooney


The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
~ Andy Rooney


The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.
~ Andy Rooney


The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.
~ Andy Rooney


The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
~ Andy Rooney


The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.
~ Andy Rooney


The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
~ Andy Rooney


Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days.
~ Andy Rooney


Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
~ Andy Rooney


Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
~ Andy Rooney


My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.
~ Andy Rooney


Nothing in fine print is ever good news.
~ Andy Rooney


Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.
~ Andy Rooney


People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
~ Andy Rooney


When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
~ Andy Rooney


Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?
~ Andy Rooney


Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.
~ Andy Rooney

Angelina Jolie Quotes

I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.

~ Angelina Jolie

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

~ Angelina Jolie

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

~ Angelina Jolie

I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.

~ Angelina Jolie

I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.

~ Angelina Jolie

I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

~ Angelina Jolie

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

~ Angelina Jolie

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

~ Angelina Jolie

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

~ Angelina Jolie

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

~ Angelina Jolie

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from over mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

~ Angelina Jolie

There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.

~ Angelina Jolie

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

~ Angelina Jolie

They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

~ Angelina Jolie

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

~ Angelina Jolie

What nourishes me also destroys me.

~ Angelina Jolie

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

~ Angelina Jolie

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

~ Angelina Jolie

I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy.

~ Angelina Jolie

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

~ Angelina Jolie

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

~ Angelina Jolie

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street.

~ Angelina Jolie

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

~ Angelina Jolie

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

~ Angelina Jolie

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

~ Angelina Jolie

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

~ Angelina Jolie

I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.

~ Angelina Jolie

I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

~ Angelina Jolie

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

~ Angelina Jolie

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

~ Angelina Jolie

I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

~ Angelina Jolie

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

~ Angelina Jolie

I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.

~ Angelina Jolie

I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

~ Angelina Jolie

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.

~ Angelina Jolie

And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

~ Angelina Jolie

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

~ Angelina Jolie

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

~ Angelina Jolie

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

~ Angelina Jolie

I always play women I would date.

~ Angelina Jolie

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

~ Angelina Jolie

I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.

~ Angelina Jolie

I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

~ Angelina Jolie

I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

~ Angelina Jolie

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

~ Angelina Jolie

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

~ Angelina Jolie

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

~ Angelina Jolie

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

~ Angelina Jolie

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

~ Angelina Jolie

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!

~ Angelina Jolie

Once you have six children, you're committed.

~ Angelina Jolie

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.

~ Angelina Jolie

Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

A day may sink or save a realm.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


God's finger touched him, and he slept.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Love is the only gold.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


There's no glory like those who save their country.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


He makes no friends who never made a foe.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


I am a part of all that I have met.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Authority forgets a dying king.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Believe me, than in half the creeds.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Better not be at all than not be noble.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


By blood a king, in heart a clown.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alexander Hamilton Quotes

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
~ Alexander Hamilton


The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
~ Alexander Hamilton


There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
~ Alexander Hamilton


Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
~ Alexander Hamilton


When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
~ Alexander Hamilton


Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
~ Alexander Hamilton


You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
~ Alexander Hamilton


A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
~ Alexander Hamilton


A promise must never be broken.
~ Alexander Hamilton


In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
~ Alexander Hamilton


In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.
~ Alexander Hamilton


It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.
~ Alexander Hamilton


It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
~ Alexander Hamilton


Learn to think continentally.
~ Alexander Hamilton


Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
~ Alexander Hamilton


Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
~ Alexander Hamilton


Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
~ Alexander Hamilton


Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
~ Alexander Hamilton


Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
~ Alexander Hamilton


A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
~ Alexander Hamilton


Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
~ Alexander Hamilton


Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
~ Alexander Hamilton


Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
~ Alexander Hamilton


I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
~ Alexander Hamilton


I think the first duty of society is justice.
~ Alexander Hamilton


In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
~ Alexander Hamilton


In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
~ Alexander Hamilton

Andrew Jackson Quotes

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
~ Andrew Jackson


It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
~ Andrew Jackson


It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
~ Andrew Jackson


Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
~ Andrew Jackson


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


Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
~ Andrew Jackson


Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
~ Andrew Jackson


Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
~ Andrew Jackson


The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.
~ Andrew Jackson


All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.
~ Andrew Jackson


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


I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.
~ Andrew Jackson


I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
~ Andrew Jackson


I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.
~ Andrew Jackson


I have always been afraid of banks.
~ Andrew Jackson


I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
~ Andrew Jackson


I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.
~ Andrew Jackson


I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.
~ Andrew Jackson


If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
~ Andrew Jackson


In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.
~ Andrew Jackson


Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
~ Andrew Jackson


Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
~ Andrew Jackson


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.
~ Andrew Jackson


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


Disunion by force is treason.
~ Andrew Jackson


Elevate those guns a little lower.
~ Andrew Jackson


Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
~ 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 its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
~ Andrew Jackson


Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
~ Andrew Jackson


The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
~ Andrew Jackson


The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
~ Andrew Jackson


There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
~ Andrew Jackson


There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
~ Andrew Jackson


There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
~ Andrew Jackson


To the victors belong the spoils.
~ Andrew Jackson


Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.
~ Andrew Jackson


War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
~ Andrew Jackson


We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
~ Andrew Jackson


You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
~ Andrew Jackson


The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
~ Andrew Jackson


The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.
~ Andrew Jackson


The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
~ Andrew Jackson


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


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


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


Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.
~ Andrew Jackson


Never take counsel of your fears.
~ Andrew Jackson


No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
~ Andrew Jackson


Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.
~ Andrew Jackson


One man with courage makes a majority.
~ Andrew Jackson