"Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down."
-Andrew Jackson
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"The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.“
-Andrew Jackson
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"War is a blessing compared with national degradation."
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"Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support."
-Andrew Jackson
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"It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States."
-Andrew Jackson
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"Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments."
-Andrew Jackson
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"The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power."
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"Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity."
-Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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"A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one."
-Lord John Russell
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"Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means."
-Francis Hutcheson
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"This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will."
-Stanford Moore
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"I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom."
-Nina Totenberg
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"The result showed the wisdom of your orders."
-John Bigelow
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