One man with courage makes a majority." - Meaning and context.">
However, see also the attributed quote "desperate courage makes One a majority."
• Attributed to Jackson by Robert F. Kennedy in his "Foreword" to the "Young Readers Memorial Edition" of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, and by Ronald Reagan in nominating Robert Bork to the US Supreme Court, this has never been found in Jackson's writings, and there is no record of him having declared it. Somewhat similar statements are known to have been made by others:
  A man with God is always in the majority. ~ John Knox
  Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one. ~ Henry David Thoreau
  One on God's side is a majority ~ Wendell Phillips

One man with courage makes a majority.

— Andrew Jackson

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "One man with courage makes a majority." in the context of "However, see also the attributed quote "desperate courage makes One a majority."
• Attributed to Jackson by Robert F. Kennedy in his "Foreword" to the "Young Readers Memorial Edition" of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, and by Ronald Reagan in nominating Robert Bork to the US Supreme Court, this has never been found in Jackson's writings, and there is no record of him having declared it. Somewhat similar statements are known to have been made by others:
  A man with God is always in the majority. ~ John Knox
  Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one. ~ Henry David Thoreau
  One on God's side is a majority ~ Wendell Phillips" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Andrew Jackson

About Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson (15 March 1767 – 8 June 1845) was the seventh president of the United States of America (1829-1837), regarded as a hero for his actions in the Battle of New Orleans (1815), a founder of the Democratic Party, and the eponym of the era of Jacksonian democracy. He was the first American president to have been a Democrat.