"The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the Government, the sovereign power."
— Andrew Jackson

January 1, 1970

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Quoted in The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton: The Life and Legacy of America's Most Elusive Founding Father, Ambrose & Martin, NYU Press (2007), p. 32