Political Quotes

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Unless the American people have degenerated, the same result can be again effected when ever experience points out the necessity of a resort to the same means to uphold the fabric which their fathers have reared.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Jackson expresses confidence that the American people can achieve unity and resolve challenges as their forefathers did.

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