Carolina QuotesJohn Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.
Andrew Jackson Carolinian
Source
Purportedly said by to John C. Calhoun during the nullification crisis — However, Mark R. Cheatham, director of The Papers of Maritin Van Buren, reports that there is no original source verifying Jackson ever said this: Mark R. Cheatham, "Are These Andrew Jackson Quotes Accurate?" Jacksonian America: Society, Personality, and Politics (February 21, 2022)
- year
- 2022
misattributed
Cite this record
“John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede you…” Andrew Jackson. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-5012FC64C8. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/5012fc64c8
More from Andrew Jackson
In the performance of a task thus generally delineated I shall endeavor to select men whose diligence and talents will insure in their respective stations able and faithful cooperation, depending for the advancement of the public service more on the integrity and zeal of the public officers than on their numbers.
You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.
To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation because it would be a solecism to contend that any part of a nation might dissolve its connection with the other parts, to their injury or ruin, without committing any offense. Secession, like any other revolutionary act, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right, is confounding the meaning of terms, and can only be done through gross error, or to deceive those who are willing to assert a right, but would pause before they made a revolution, or incur the penalties consequent upon a failure.