Andrew Jackson Quote 

"Every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society -- the farmers, mechanics, and laborers -- who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government."

by:
Andrew Jackson
(1767-1845) 7th US President
Source:
veto of national bank bill, July 10, 1832
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"when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges," of any type (including license) the unjust government has shown that they act contrary to law as superiors (not servants) to We The People and do so unconstitutionally.
 -- Mike, Norwalk		 
Search "Article V Convention" see what you get...The States need to retake what the Feds have stolen.
 -- J Carlton, Calgary		 
On April 15th, or before, send a teabag to Washington.
 -- jim k, austin		 
The states are just as guilty as the federal government (if not more so)... indeed, the people themselves are also just as guilty, as evidenced in Prop8 in Californicate...
 -- Anonymous, Reston, VA		 
So true...
 -- Allen, DC		 
Anonymous, is your Prop 8 reference a timely slap against Iowa's Supreme Court legislators granting more titles, gratuities, and privileges to artificial distinction?
 -- Mike, Norwalk		 
Andrew Jackson is considered the founder of the "modern" democratic party after Jefferson. He united the Southern and Western parts of the country against the Whig entrenched money interests of the North and East. The money interests then fell in with the Republicans to reclaim their stranglehold on the nation after the war using Grant as their stepping stone to complete their political and economic power grab during the so called Southern Reconstruction in which the region was treated worse than was Germany and Japan after those wars with the US. They then institutted the Gilded Age from 1870's to 1900's an age of gold (for the rich) and pooverty for the rest of the country. Sort of like what happened during the 20 years of Reagan and Bushes. Now maybey Obama can return us to the politics of Andrew Jackson.
 -- Waffler, Smith		 
Jackson nails it. This is what Bush and Obama should have done: revoke the charter of the Federal Reserve, for all this economic mess is the result of the private monopoly of the creation of money by a private institution to which the entire government has become beholden. Jackson stopped it. Jefferson stopped it in his day. Garfield may have stopped it if he hadn't been assasinated, and perhaps JFK would have stopped it, too, as was evidenced by his re-issuance of silver certificates shortly before he was killed. LBJ recalled those notes...
 -- E Archer, NYC		 
 -- JR, Broomfield 
waffler, smith wrote"Now maybey Obama can return us to the politics of Andrew Jackson" my god is the wool really pulled over your eyes that far? Obama is nothing more than a puppet! all that follow him are treasonous "The brave man inattentive to his duty,is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger." All who read this is it is your duty to be attentive for your fathers like mine have let this country go astray! WAKE THE HELL UP!!!
 -- Bob, jersey		 
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