And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Read this, and highly recommend it. Just the story of the Battle of New Orleans is worth it, but it's just one episode in an incredible life. There's multiple good reasons his mug's on the twenty.
Though I don't trust the Federal Reserve Notes I use them constantly. I've never paid for gasoline or groceries with plastic. Jackson was vehemently opposed to a national bank as was Jefferson. I'm glad "ol' Hickory" is still on the 20's. Talk of replacing him with Harriet Tubman hasn't occurred. Wouldn't surprise me if Biden makes it happen... he's such the sensitive type.
I read it some years ago, it's very good. 'Old Hickory' was as tough and resilient as they come, and yes - he reminds me of Trump, in the way he was constantly (and unfairly) attacked by the treacherous Washington DC Establishment. And, as does Huey Long, who also reminds me of Trump, because he was such a maverick, one who came up with brilliant new ways to reach people campaigning - and which is another excellent biography (by T Harry Williams). - Aggie
He was very much the “Trump” of his time…
ReplyDeleteThough I don't trust the Federal Reserve Notes I use them constantly. I've never paid for gasoline or groceries with plastic. Jackson was vehemently opposed to a national bank as was Jefferson. I'm glad "ol' Hickory" is still on the 20's. Talk of replacing him with Harriet Tubman hasn't occurred. Wouldn't surprise me if Biden makes it happen... he's such the sensitive type.
ReplyDeleteBiden's got bigger things to think about than who's on a twenty. Tubman's admirable, but no match for the colossus that was Jackson.
DeleteBiden can't actually think. He's told what to do next.
DeleteThe holdup on this is the Dems discovered Tubman was a gun-totin' Republican woman.
DeleteIn 1814 we took a little trip. Along with Col. Jackson up the Mighty Mississip.
ReplyDelete"took a little bacon, lord we took a little beans. Fought the bloody British in the town of New Orleans"
Deletehe told the supremes to pound sand.
ReplyDeleteI read it some years ago, it's very good. 'Old Hickory' was as tough and resilient as they come, and yes - he reminds me of Trump, in the way he was constantly (and unfairly) attacked by the treacherous Washington DC Establishment. And, as does Huey Long, who also reminds me of Trump, because he was such a maverick, one who came up with brilliant new ways to reach people campaigning - and which is another excellent biography (by T Harry Williams). - Aggie
ReplyDeleteFired our guns but the British kept acomin’
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