Quoted By:
Gentlemen! I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States.
I have had men watching you for a long time, and 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 among 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.
I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I WILL rout you out."
From the original minutes of the Philadelphia bankers meeting with President Jackson February 1834, from Andrew Jackson and the Bank of the United States (1928) by Stan V. Henkels
Basically the only American President who truly worked for the common man's interests over the interests of the wealthy (with some exception made for Washington, the founders and maybe to some degree a few others).
A true badass who the bankers tried to assassinate on numerous occasions (but failed).
Rest in peace Andrew, rest in peace.
