Andrew Jackson actually said...

"To the Senate of the United States: The inclosed report * of the Secretary of War is herewith inclosed in answer to the resolution of the Senate of yesterday's date."

"Years since I stated to them my belief that if the States chose to extend their laws over them it would not be in the power of the Federal Government to prevent it."

"To an independent and foreign people this would seem to be assuming, I should suppose, rather too lofty a tone--one which the Government would not have assumed if they had considered them in that ligh..."

"My opinion remains the same, and I can see no alternative for them but that of their removal to the West or a quiet submission to the State laws."