6 Andrew Jackson Quotes on War

Andrew Jackson quotes on war

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.

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

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

23. The Bank is trying to kill me, but I shall kill it!

25. You are a nest of vipers and thieves, and by the grace of the almighty God, I will root you out!

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