Carolina QuotesAs long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of person and of property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending.
Andrew Jackson Carolinian
Source
First Inaugural Address (4 March 1829).
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- 1829
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