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In administering the laws of Congress I shall keep steadily in view the limitations as well as the extent of the Executive power trusting thereby to discharge the functions of my office without transcending its authority.
7th president · 1829–1837
Andrew Jackson
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Considering standing armies as dangerous to free governments in time of peace, I shall not seek to enlarge our present establishment, nor disregard that salutary lesson of political experience which teaches that the military should be held subordinate to the civil power.
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
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Our Constitution does not contain the absurdity of giving power to make laws, and another power to resist them.
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Men of the best intentions and soundest views may differ in their construction of some parts of the Constitution, but there are others on which dispassionate reflection can leave no doubt.
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The laws of the United States must be executed.
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The loss of liberty, of all good government, of peace, plenty, and happiness, must inevitably follow a dissolution of the Union.