Carolina QuotesThe great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
Andrew Jackson Carolinian
Source
Andrew Jackson, in Ticknor Curtis Life of James Buchanan: Fifteenth President of the United States, Volume 1, Harper & Brothers, 1883, p. 46
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- 1883
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