6 Andrew Jackson Quotes on Leadership

Andrew Jackson quotes on leadership

3. Do they think that I am such a damned fool as 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.

9. Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils in its train that they might reign & ride on its whirlwinds & direct the Storm-- The free people of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom.

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

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

21. I will go to South Carolina and hang the first secessionist I see from the first tree I can reach.

27. Never take counsel of your fears.

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