
Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President.
Como relatado a HM Brackenridge, secretário de Jackson, em 1821; citado por James Parton em "The Life of Adrew Jackson (1860), vol II, cap. XXVI (Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1888), página 354.