“I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.”
Source: He Knew He Was Right
“I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President.”
As told to H.M. Brackenridge, Jackson's secretary, in 1821; quoted by James Parton, The Life of Andrew Jackson (1860), vol. II, ch. XXVI (Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1888), page 354. Parton cites his source as H.M. Brackenridge, Letters, page 8.
1820s
Context: Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President.
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