Andrew Jackson, né le 15 mars 1767 près de Waxhaw et mort le 8 juin 1845 à Nashville , est un homme d'État américain, septième président des États-Unis de 1829 à 1837.
Gouverneur militaire de la Floride en 1821, après avoir été commandant des forces américaines durant la bataille de La Nouvelle-Orléans en 1815, il est à la base de l'ère démocratique « jacksonienne ». Il a été une figure importante qui domina la politique américaine dans les décennies de 1820 et de 1830. Ses ambitions politiques combinées à une participation politique plus grande de la population amenèrent la création des partis politiques tels que nous les connaissons aujourd’hui. Son héritage est vu de manière plus contrastée aujourd’hui, comme un protecteur de la démocratie populaire et de la liberté individuelle mais décrié par certains pour son soutien à la déportation des Amérindiens à l'ouest du Mississippi et à l'esclavage. Renommé pour être impénétrable et dur, il était surnommé Old Hickory . Basant sa carrière dans le Tennessee naissant, Jackson a été le premier président à être associé à la « frontière américaine ». Son portrait apparaît actuellement sur les billets de vingt dollars.
Wikipedia
“Desperate courage makes One a majority.”
As quoted by James Parton in the Life of Andrew Jackson http://books.google.com/books?id=bWYFAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Desperate+courage+makes+One+a+majority%22&pg=PA501#v=onepage (1860), vol. III, ch. XXXVI, "War Upon the Bank Renewed"
However, see also the mis-attributed quote "one man with courage makes a majority."
1820s
Last recorded words, to his grand-children and his servants, as quoted in The National Preacher (1845) by Austin Dickinson, p. 192.
Martin Luther, Von Kaufhandlung und Wucher, 1524, (Vol. XV, p. 302, of the Weimar edition of Luther's works).
Misattributed
Letter (7 April 1832) on the ruling in Worcester v. Georgia.
1830s
Proclamation Regarding Nullification (10 December 1832).
1830s
"Proclamation to the people of Louisiana" from Mobile (21 September 1814).
1810s
Some claim that Jackson said this on his deathbed.
Some websites also claim that this is inscribed upon Jackson's tombstone.
Misattributed
Reputedly from the original minutes of the Philadelphia committee of citizens sent to meet with President Jackson (February 1834), according to Andrew Jackson and the Bank of the United States (1928) by Stan V. Henkels as published by his son Stan V. Henkels Jr. - online PDF http://kenhirsch.net/money/AndrewJacksonAndTheBankHenkels.pdf. John Carney at Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/sorry-andrew-jackson-probably-never-said-that-den-of-theives-quote-2010-1 has disputed its authenticity alleging Henkels made unreliable claims about historical documents.
A different version of this quote is provided by Henkels in a 1912 copy of Publisher's Weekly https://books.google.com/books?id=IyYzAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false (p. 2039).
Disputed
Congress have established a mint to coin money and passed laws to regulate the value thereof. The money so coined, with its value so regulated, and such foreign coins as Congress may adopt are the only currency known to the Constitution. But if they have other power to regulate the currency, it was conferred to be exercised by themselves, and not to be transferred to a corporation. If the bank be established for that purpose, with a charter unalterable without its consent, Congress have parted with their power for a term of years, during which the Constitution is a dead letter. It is neither necessary nor proper to transfer its legislative power to such a bank, and therefore unconstitutional.
Often paraphrased as: If Congress has the right under the constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to be used by themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.
1830s
Source: Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/ajveto01.asp (10 July 1832)
Source: 1832. See The Minds of Men: An American Intelligence Brief https://books.google.com.br/books?id=u2I6AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA27 by Eric Sanders. AuthorHouse, 2014. pp. 27-28
