Andrew Jackson Quotes

He is only a filthy-brained child, conceived in ruthlessness and dedicated to the proposition that Judas Iscariot was a piker.

...I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.

Our representatives are betrayers of the people.

… they seem to be such as would not swear, whore, nor be drunk, but they would lie, cozen and deceive.

I wouldn't trust [Richard] Nixon from here to that phone.

Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

Meese was a sleaze.

To plunder, to lie, to show your ass, are the three essentials for climbing high.

The gentleman is guilty of every crime that does not require courage.

Knavery seems to be so much the striking feature of its [America's] inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they become aliens to this Kingdom.

[Describing member of Congress:] 80 percent were hypocrites. 80 percent, liars. 80 percent, serious sinners.... There is always boozing and floozing.

… the most corrupt of all corrupt men.

He would double-cross and destroy the reputation of anybody.

You are a den of vipers and thieves ... by the eternal God, I will rout you out.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth there's hardly any difference.

Right here in this heart and home and fountain-head of law--in this great factory where are forged those rules that create good order and compel virtue and honesty in the other communities of the land, rascality achieves its highest perfection. Here rewards are conferred for conniving at dishonesty, but never for exposing it

Talleyrand is a silk stocking filled with mud.

I prefer a real villain to a false hero.

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.