Andrew Jackson, in Ticknor Curtis Life of James Buchanan: Fifteenth President of the United States, Volume 1, Harper & Brothers, 1883, p. 46

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 on Deliberation

What It Means

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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.