“The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.”
Andrew Jackson
“Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves.”
Andrew Jackson
“It is from within, among yourselves–from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power–that factions will be formed and liberty endangered. It is against such designs, whatever disguise the actors may assume, that you have especially to guard yourselves. You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. May He who holds in His hands the destinies of nations make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed and enable you, with pure hearts and pure hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time the great charge He has committed to your keeping.”
Andrew Jackson
I came to the realization years ago that the Deep State would forever control presidents using the “Economic Hit Man” program: Do what we say and you’ll live the life of a king or oppose us and we’ll Grassy Knoll your ass. For that reason I held all presidents in contempt. It’s one reason why I’ve held Trump at arms length. But I just read that he ordered a portrait of Jackson to hang in the Oval Office. Could this be an omen that he’s actually going to face down the primary evil of our age: The Federal Reserve? If so he is what his most ardent supporters say he is, our savior. I’m not yet ready to sign on completely but I must admit I hear the ice cracking around me. We’ll see.