Andrew Jackson Quotes
Peace, above all things, is to be desired. but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
Andrew Jackson, 1767-1845, 7th President of the United States (Democrat, TN), Quoted in George Seldes, The Great Quotations, Citadel, 1983
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Up Front was a book of cartoons with his two GI characters, Willie and Joe. The quote is from their dialogue. Up Front which won the Pulitzer Prize.
Andrew Jackson was an American lawyer, soldier, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before being elected to the presidency, Jackson gained fame as a general in the United States Army and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. An expansionist president, Jackson sought to advance the rights of the "common man" against a "corrupt aristocracy" and to preserve the Union.