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Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times QUOTES

1 " In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people, no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another. Offices were not established to give support to particular men at the public expense. No individual wrong is, therefore, done by removal, since neither appointment to nor continuance in office is a matter of right. "

― H.W. Brands , Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times

2 " Years later, a Jackson partisan (who wasn’t at Knoxville) said Jackson had praised the melodiousness of “Tennessee” as a word that had “as sweet a flavor on the tongue as hot corn-cakes and honey. "

― H.W. Brands , Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times

3 " Louisiana is a delightful country, and though the climate too often proves fatal to a foreigner, yet generally we ascribe to the climate what is the effect of our imprudence. I have been severely attacked this summer, and had nearly died, but at length I am acclimated.” The author of these words was John Windship, a Bostonian who migrated to Louisiana not long after his graduation from Harvard in 1809. "

― H.W. Brands , Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times